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authorAditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>2019-03-14 15:31:40 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-04 09:21:13 +0200
commit9fc5c6e8fce8d322c97d479579e06da0bbb7e806 (patch)
tree7dcb24741c307cd04775d552d597d4796c42ebd2 /drivers/net
parent2e75be8dd6faf8cf21ec1006df732e9e8a947df1 (diff)
qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
[ Upstream commit 5bf7295fe34a5251b1d241b9736af4697b590670 ] netdev_alloc_skb can fail and return a NULL pointer which is dereferenced without a check. The patch avoids such a scenario. Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
index 3b0adda7cc9c..a4cd6f2cfb86 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
@@ -1048,6 +1048,8 @@ int qlcnic_do_lb_test(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter, u8 mode)
for (i = 0; i < QLCNIC_NUM_ILB_PKT; i++) {
skb = netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
+ if (!skb)
+ break;
qlcnic_create_loopback_buff(skb->data, adapter->mac_addr);
skb_put(skb, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
adapter->ahw->diag_cnt = 0;