[PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: core: rtw_wlan_util.c: Fix for NULL dereference
Julia Lawall
julia.lawall at lip6.fr
Mon Jan 26 15:59:05 UTC 2015
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote:
> In rtw_check_bcn_info(), check the return value of kzalloc() before
> dereferencing it, to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c
> index 3e9b6e9..a3ffc69 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c
> @@ -931,6 +931,8 @@ int rtw_check_bcn_info(struct adapter *Adapter, u8 *pframe, u32 packet_len)
> }
>
> bssid = kzalloc(sizeof(struct wlan_bssid_ex), GFP_ATOMIC);
> + if (!bssid)
> + return _FAIL;
I haven't looked at this issue in a while, but shouldn't this be
OBD_ALLOC?
Although I still find macros parameters that are side effected to be
unpleasant...
julia
> subtype = GetFrameSubType(pframe) >> 4;
>
> --
> 2.1.0
>
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