Patch "nfc: nci: hci: Add check on skb nci_hci_send_cmd parameter" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    nfc: nci: hci: Add check on skb nci_hci_send_cmd parameter

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     nfc-nci-hci-add-check-on-skb-nci_hci_send_cmd-parameter.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5a9e0ffc0f128ecdf7c770f76c268e4f9f3c9118 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Ricard <christophe.ricard@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:26:42 +0200
Subject: nfc: nci: hci: Add check on skb nci_hci_send_cmd parameter

From: Christophe Ricard <christophe.ricard@gmail.com>

commit 5a9e0ffc0f128ecdf7c770f76c268e4f9f3c9118 upstream.

skb can be NULL and may lead to a NULL pointer error.

Add a check condition before setting HCI rx buffer.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Ricard <christophe-h.ricard@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/nfc/nci/hci.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/nfc/nci/hci.c
+++ b/net/nfc/nci/hci.c
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ int nci_hci_send_cmd(struct nci_dev *nde
 	r = nci_request(ndev, nci_hci_send_data_req, (unsigned long)&data,
 			msecs_to_jiffies(NCI_DATA_TIMEOUT));
 
-	if (r == NCI_STATUS_OK)
+	if (r == NCI_STATUS_OK && skb)
 		*skb = conn_info->rx_skb;
 
 	return r;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.ricard@gmail.com are

queue-4.1/nfc-nci-hci-add-check-on-skb-nci_hci_send_cmd-parameter.patch
queue-4.1/nfc-st21nfca-fix-use-of-uninitialized-variables-in-error-path.patch