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net: sxgbe: fix potential null dereference

PATCH Applied Byungho An 2 participants 2 messages Mar 28, 2014

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Networking Network drivers Arm Samsung Exynos Samsung sxgbe drivers
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PATCH 1/1 net: sxgbe: fix potential null dereference

From: Byungho An <[email protected]>

This fixes following:

drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c:1828 sxgbe_hw_init()
error: potential null dereference 'priv->hw'. (kmalloc returns null)

Reported-by kbuild test robot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Byungho An <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c +8 -2
index ee1fd3c..a72688e 100644
@@ -2039,11 +2039,13 @@ static void sxgbe_get_ops(struct sxgbe_ops * const ops_ptr)
  *  Description: this function checks the HW capability
  *  (if supported) and sets the driver's features.
  */
-static void sxgbe_hw_init(struct sxgbe_priv_data * const priv)
+static int sxgbe_hw_init(struct sxgbe_priv_data * const priv)
 {
 	u32 ctrl_ids;
 
 	priv->hw = kmalloc(sizeof(*priv->hw), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if(!priv->hw)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* get the hardware ops */
 	sxgbe_get_ops(priv->hw);

@@ -2064,6 +2066,8 @@ static void sxgbe_hw_init(struct sxgbe_priv_data * const priv)
 
 	if (priv->hw_cap.rx_csum_offload)
 		pr_info("RX Checksum offload supported\n");
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /**

@@ -2102,7 +2106,9 @@ struct sxgbe_priv_data *sxgbe_drv_probe(struct device *device,
 	sxgbe_verify_args();
 
 	/* Init MAC and get the capabilities */
-	sxgbe_hw_init(priv);
+	ret = sxgbe_hw_init(priv);
+	if (ret)
+		goto error_free_netdev;
 
 	/* allocate memory resources for Descriptor rings */
 	ret = txring_mem_alloc(priv);
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