netdev - Re: [PATCH] mt76: fix memcpy to potential null pointer on failed allocation

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Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:17:50 +0100
From:   Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@...il.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mt76: fix memcpy to potential null pointer on failed
 allocation

On 2017-12-14 11:13, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently if the allocation of skb fails and returns NULL then the
> call to skb_put will cause a null pointer dereference. Fix this by
> checking for a null skb and returning NULL.  Note that calls to
> function mt76x2_mcu_msg_alloc don't directly check the null return
> but instead pass the NULL pointer to mt76x2_mcu_msg_send which
> checks for the NULL and returns ENOMEM in this case.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1462624 ("Dereference null return value")
> 
> Fixes: 7bc04215a66b ("mt76: add driver code for MT76x2e")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>