linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 034/132] RDMA/cxgb4: Fix null pointer dereference on alloc

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Date:   Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:23:35 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Potnuri Bharat Teja" <bharat@...lsio.com>,
        "Colin Ian King" <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        "Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@...lanox.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 034/132] RDMA/cxgb4: Fix null pointer dereference on
 alloc_skb failure

3.16.74-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

commit a6d2a5a92e67d151c98886babdc86d530d27111c upstream.

Currently if alloc_skb fails to allocate the skb a null skb is passed to
t4_set_arp_err_handler and this ends up dereferencing the null skb.  Avoid
the NULL pointer dereference by checking for a NULL skb and returning
early.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return")
Fixes: b38a0ad8ec11 ("RDMA/cxgb4: Set arp error handler for PASS_ACCEPT_RPL messages")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Acked-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@...lsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
@@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *get_skb(struct sk
 		skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
 	} else {
 		skb = alloc_skb(len, gfp);
+		if (!skb)
+			return NULL;
 	}
 	t4_set_arp_err_handler(skb, NULL, NULL);
 	return skb;