From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46758 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030852AbeCSSS5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:18:57 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Colin Ian King , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 005/241] staging: wilc1000: add check for kmalloc allocation failure. Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:04:30 +0100 Message-Id: <20180319180751.404292822@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180319180751.172155436@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180319180751.172155436@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Colin Ian King [ Upstream commit 6cc0c259d034c6ab48f4e12f505213988e73d380 ] Add a sanity check that wid.val has been allocated, fixes a null pointer deference on stamac when calling ether_add_copy. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1369537 ("Dereference null return value") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c @@ -1930,6 +1930,8 @@ static s32 Handle_Get_InActiveTime(struc wid.type = WID_STR; wid.size = ETH_ALEN; wid.val = kmalloc(wid.size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!wid.val) + return -ENOMEM; stamac = wid.val; memcpy(stamac, strHostIfStaInactiveT->mac, ETH_ALEN);