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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:24:08 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtlwifi: rtl8822b: fix to avoid NULL pointer
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> skb allocated via dev_alloc_skb can fail and return a NULL pointer.
> This patch avoids such a scenario and returns, consistent with other
> invocations.
> 
> ---
> v1: Patch collision with rtl_phydm.c, fix as per Greg
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>

And here as well, please put above ---