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| author | Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> | 2011-01-21 13:40:54 -0600 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-01-21 15:07:38 -0500 |
| commit | bdc4bf652bc0271ba8f1f25bbd3dbac90bead44e (patch) | |
| tree | 0df37186346b816a1f2c3c09b091175fc0f35568 /drivers/net/wireless | |
| parent | 783cd01e140d9db5c2d2279a96b81e16f9d81fef (diff) | |
rtlwifi: Fix possible NULL dereference
In drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c::_rtl_pci_rx_interrupt() we call
dev_alloc_skb(), which may fail and return NULL, but we do not check the
returned value against NULL before dereferencing the returned pointer.
This may lead to a NULL pointer dereference which means we'll crash - not
good.
In a separate call to dev_alloc_skb(), the debug level is changed so that
the failure message will always be logged.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c index 0fa36aa6701..1758d446324 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c @@ -619,6 +619,13 @@ static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) struct sk_buff *uskb = NULL; u8 *pdata; uskb = dev_alloc_skb(skb->len + 128); + if (!uskb) { + RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, + (COMP_INTR | COMP_RECV), + DBG_EMERG, + ("can't alloc rx skb\n")); + goto done; + } memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(uskb), &rx_status, sizeof(rx_status)); @@ -641,7 +648,7 @@ static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) new_skb = dev_alloc_skb(rtlpci->rxbuffersize); if (unlikely(!new_skb)) { RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, (COMP_INTR | COMP_RECV), - DBG_DMESG, + DBG_EMERG, ("can't alloc skb for rx\n")); goto done; } @@ -1066,9 +1073,9 @@ static int _rtl_pci_init_rx_ring(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb(rtlpci->rxbuffersize); u32 bufferaddress; - entry = &rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc[i]; if (!skb) return 0; + entry = &rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc[i]; /*skb->dev = dev; */ |