[PATCH] staging: Check for Null return of allocated skb in fw_download_code

Nicholas Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 23:12:58 EDT 2014


This patch checks if we are getting a Null allocated skb in the while/do
loop of this function. Further more no reference checking is needing
as skb_put is only working with the packet defined by skb and not allocating
a new one. Further more I am breaking out of the loop in order to make sure
we call nic_write_byte and cause no errors with writing the nic byte(s) of
private date and then call rt_status which I changed to false in the loop
with my additon of checking the allocated skb.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
index 1a95d1f..829af66 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
 		}
 
 		skb  = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length + 4);
+		if( skb == NULL) {
+			rt_status =  false ;
+			break;
+		}	
 		memcpy((unsigned char *)(skb->cb), &dev, sizeof(dev));
 		tcb_desc = (struct cb_desc *)(skb->cb + MAX_DEV_ADDR_SIZE);
 		tcb_desc->queue_index = TXCMD_QUEUE;
-- 
1.9.1




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