| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.9 005/241] staging: wilc1000: add check for kmalloc allocation failure. | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:04:30 +0100 |
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4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
[ Upstream commit 6cc0c259d034c6ab48f4e12f505213988e73d380 ]
Add a sanity check that wid.val has been allocated, fixes a null pointer deference on stamac when calling ether_add_copy.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1369537 ("Dereference null return value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c @@ -1930,6 +1930,8 @@ static s32 Handle_Get_InActiveTime(struc wid.type = WID_STR; wid.size = ETH_ALEN; wid.val = kmalloc(wid.size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!wid.val) + return -ENOMEM; stamac = wid.val; memcpy(stamac, strHostIfStaInactiveT->mac, ETH_ALEN);
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