netdev - Re: [PATCH][next] ath11k: add missing null check on allocated skb

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Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:45:42 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Carl Huang <cjhuang@...eaurora.org>,
        ath11k@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ath11k: add missing null check on allocated skb

Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:

> Currently the null check on a newly allocated skb is missing and
> this can lead to a null pointer dereference is the allocation fails.
> Fix this by adding a null check and returning -ENOMEM.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return")
> Fixes: 43ed15e1ee01 ("ath11k: put hw to DBS using WMI_PDEV_SET_HW_MODE_CMDID")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-current branch of ath.git, thanks.

292bff9480c8 ath11k: add missing null check on allocated skb

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20201214232417.84556-1-colin.king@canonical.com/

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