Patch "staging: rtl8822be: fix missing null check on dev_alloc_skb return" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: rtl8822be: fix missing null check on dev_alloc_skb return

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
staging-rtl8822be-fix-missing-null-check-on-dev_alloc_skb-return.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:50:55 +0000
Subject: staging: rtl8822be: fix missing null check on dev_alloc_skb return

From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 3eb23426e1749a0483bc4c9b18e51f657569e3ed ]

dev_alloc_skb can potentially return NULL, so add a null check to avoid a null pointer dereference on skb

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1454558 ("Dereference on null return")

---
 drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

@@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ bool rtl8822b_halmac_cb_write_data_rsvd_
 	int count;
 
 	skb = dev_alloc_skb(size);
+	if (!skb)
+		return false;
 	memcpy((u8 *)skb_put(skb, size), buf, size);
 
 	if (!_rtl8822be_send_bcn_or_cmd_packet(rtlpriv->hw, skb, BEACON_QUEUE))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/usbip-vudc-fix-null-pointer-dereference-on-udc-lock.patch queue-4.15/crypto-cavium-fix-memory-leak-on-info.patch queue-4.15/staging-rtl8822be-fix-missing-null-check-on-dev_alloc_skb-return.patch