Staging: rtl8192u: r819xU_cmdpkt: checking NULL value after doing dev_alloc_skb

Checking the return of dev_alloc_skb as stated in the following bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60411

Signed-off-by: Iker Pedrosa <ikerpedrosam@gmail.com>
Reported-by: RUC_Soft_Sec rucsoftsec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r819xU_cmdpkt.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r819xU_cmdpkt.c
index 5bc361b16d4ca05e924bd3a326824c852a67b8f0..56144014b7c9ba15126f97b073fb6eea4777937a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r819xU_cmdpkt.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r819xU_cmdpkt.c
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ rt_status SendTxCommandPacket(struct net_device *dev, void *pData, u32 DataLen)
        /* Get TCB and local buffer from common pool.
           (It is shared by CmdQ, MgntQ, and USB coalesce DataQ) */
        skb  = dev_alloc_skb(USB_HWDESC_HEADER_LEN + DataLen + 4);
+       if (!skb)
+               return RT_STATUS_FAILURE;
        memcpy((unsigned char *)(skb->cb), &dev, sizeof(dev));
        tcb_desc = (cb_desc *)(skb->cb + MAX_DEV_ADDR_SIZE);
        tcb_desc->queue_index = TXCMD_QUEUE;