[PATCH v2 2/9] staging: wilc1000: avoid 'NULL' pointer access in wilc_network_info_received()

Ajay Singh ajay.kathat at microchip.com
Mon Mar 26 11:45:56 UTC 2018


Added 'NULL' check before accessing the allocated memory. Free up the
memory incase of failure to enqueue the command. Used kmemdup instead of
kmalloc & memcpy.

Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat at microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea at microchip.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
index a13998d..70c10bc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
@@ -3453,12 +3453,15 @@ void wilc_network_info_received(struct wilc *wilc, u8 *buffer, u32 length)
 	msg.vif = vif;
 
 	msg.body.net_info.len = length;
-	msg.body.net_info.buffer = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
-	memcpy(msg.body.net_info.buffer, buffer, length);
+	msg.body.net_info.buffer = kmemdup(buffer, length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!msg.body.net_info.buffer)
+		return;
 
 	result = wilc_enqueue_cmd(&msg);
-	if (result)
+	if (result) {
 		netdev_err(vif->ndev, "message parameters (%d)\n", result);
+		kfree(msg.body.net_info.buffer);
+	}
 }
 
 void wilc_gnrl_async_info_received(struct wilc *wilc, u8 *buffer, u32 length)
-- 
2.7.4



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