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authorAditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>2019-03-14 15:31:40 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-03-15 11:55:53 -0700
commit5bf7295fe34a5251b1d241b9736af4697b590670 (patch)
treef498356fe345f144e25c6830e66f9c86c6f93f0b /drivers/net
parent58f2ce6f61615dfd8dd3cc01c9e5bb54ed35637e (diff)
downloadlinux-5bf7295fe34a5251b1d241b9736af4697b590670.tar.bz2
qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
netdev_alloc_skb can fail and return a NULL pointer which is dereferenced without a check. The patch avoids such a scenario. Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
index 3b0adda7cc9c..a4cd6f2cfb86 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
@@ -1048,6 +1048,8 @@ int qlcnic_do_lb_test(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter, u8 mode)
for (i = 0; i < QLCNIC_NUM_ILB_PKT; i++) {
skb = netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
+ if (!skb)
+ break;
qlcnic_create_loopback_buff(skb->data, adapter->mac_addr);
skb_put(skb, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
adapter->ahw->diag_cnt = 0;