Re: [PATCHv3] staging: Check for Null allocated skb in fw_download_code

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:46:56 -0000, Jeff Haran said:

While the avoidance of dereferencing NULL pointers in the kernel is a laudable goal, what will be the effect of the call to write_nic_byte() at the end of the function not happening should the call to dev_alloc_skb() return NULL?

Damn. I missed that one, good catch.