qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
authorAditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:31:40 +0000 (15:31 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 4 May 2019 06:49:06 +0000 (08:49 +0200)
[ 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>
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c

index 0a2318c..63ebc49 100644 (file)
@@ -1038,6 +1038,8 @@ 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;