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

Nicholas Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 16:18:27 EDT 2014


I am fixing the bug entry , https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60461.
This entry states that we are not checking the skb allocated in fw_download_code
for NULL and after checking it ,I fixed it to check for the NULL value before
returning false and exiting fw_download_code cleanly. In additon I removed the
variable, rt_status as it's easier to read this function's return value with
just true or false and rt status is a unneeded variable for the bool return
of this function.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
index 1a95d1f..66d83f8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_firmware.c
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
 			     u32 buffer_len)
 {
 	struct r8192_priv *priv = rtllib_priv(dev);
-	bool		    rt_status = true;
 	u16		    frag_threshold;
 	u16		    frag_length, frag_offset = 0;
 	int		    i;
@@ -61,6 +60,8 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
 		}
 
 		skb  = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length + 4);
+		if (skb == NULL)
+			return false;
 		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;
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ static bool fw_download_code(struct net_device *dev, u8 *code_virtual_address,
 
 	write_nic_byte(dev, TPPoll, TPPoll_CQ);
 
-	return rt_status;
+	return true;
 }
 
 static bool CPUcheck_maincodeok_turnonCPU(struct net_device *dev)
-- 
1.9.1




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