linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <20190315.115640.1477522812438525683.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:56:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pakki001@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, shshaikh@...vell.com, manishc@...vell.com,
        GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:31:40 -0500

> 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@....edu>

Applied.