linux-kernel - [PATCH] scsi: cxgb4i: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:47:58 -0500
From:   Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
To:     pakki001@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Karen Xie <kxie@...lsio.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: cxgb4i: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

alloc_wr may fail and return NULL. The patch checks for such a
scenario and avoids it.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
---
 drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c
index d44914e5e415..b4f1e00b9250 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c
@@ -617,6 +617,8 @@ static inline int send_tx_flowc_wr(struct cxgbi_sock *csk)
 #endif
 	flowclen16 = tx_flowc_wr_credits(&nparams, &flowclen);
 	skb = alloc_wr(flowclen, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (!skb)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	flowc = (struct fw_flowc_wr *)skb->head;
 	flowc->op_to_nparams =
 		htonl(FW_WR_OP_V(FW_FLOWC_WR) | FW_FLOWC_WR_NPARAMS_V(nparams));
-- 
2.17.1