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authorMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>2013-12-02 14:09:34 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2013-12-02 13:11:52 -0500
commit3469adb36c41a1fc0217802fa734d4220712e9c2 (patch)
tree5adfcf3c533778723fed5c415ca2e2024f7026c8 /drivers/net/wireless
parentbeae416b1f40ef3b6f7918035cefcf1d5f9aeb49 (diff)
net: wireless: wcn36xx: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
If kmalloc fails wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process will attempt to dereference a NULL pointer. There might be a better error recovery then just printing an error, but printing an error message is better then the current behaviour. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c19
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
index de9eb2cfbf4..366339421d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
@@ -2041,13 +2041,20 @@ static void wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process(struct wcn36xx *wcn, void *buf, size_t len)
case WCN36XX_HAL_DELETE_STA_CONTEXT_IND:
mutex_lock(&wcn->hal_ind_mutex);
msg_ind = kmalloc(sizeof(*msg_ind), GFP_KERNEL);
- msg_ind->msg_len = len;
- msg_ind->msg = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
- memcpy(msg_ind->msg, buf, len);
- list_add_tail(&msg_ind->list, &wcn->hal_ind_queue);
- queue_work(wcn->hal_ind_wq, &wcn->hal_ind_work);
- wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "indication arrived\n");
+ if (msg_ind) {
+ msg_ind->msg_len = len;
+ msg_ind->msg = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ memcpy(msg_ind->msg, buf, len);
+ list_add_tail(&msg_ind->list, &wcn->hal_ind_queue);
+ queue_work(wcn->hal_ind_wq, &wcn->hal_ind_work);
+ wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "indication arrived\n");
+ }
mutex_unlock(&wcn->hal_ind_mutex);
+ if (msg_ind)
+ break;
+ /* FIXME: Do something smarter then just printing an error. */
+ wcn36xx_err("Run out of memory while handling SMD_EVENT (%d)\n",
+ msg_header->msg_type);
break;
default:
wcn36xx_err("SMD_EVENT (%d) not supported\n",