[PATCH 1/4] net: wireless: wcn36xx: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Eugene Krasnikov k.eugene.e at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 14:37:35 EST 2014


From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at mina86.com>

If kmalloc fails wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process will attempt to dereference
a NULL pointer.  There might be a better error recovery then just
printing an error, but printing an error message is better then the
current behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
---
 smd.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/smd.c b/smd.c
index 1096b6e..7811bf3 100644
--- a/smd.c
+++ b/smd.c
@@ -2069,13 +2069,20 @@ static void wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process(struct wcn36xx *wcn, void *buf, size_t len)
 	case WCN36XX_HAL_DELETE_STA_CONTEXT_IND:
 		mutex_lock(&wcn->hal_ind_mutex);
 		msg_ind = kmalloc(sizeof(*msg_ind), GFP_KERNEL);
-		msg_ind->msg_len = len;
-		msg_ind->msg = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-		memcpy(msg_ind->msg, buf, len);
-		list_add_tail(&msg_ind->list, &wcn->hal_ind_queue);
-		queue_work(wcn->hal_ind_wq, &wcn->hal_ind_work);
-		wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "indication arrived\n");
+		if (msg_ind) {
+			msg_ind->msg_len = len;
+			msg_ind->msg = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+			memcpy(msg_ind->msg, buf, len);
+			list_add_tail(&msg_ind->list, &wcn->hal_ind_queue);
+			queue_work(wcn->hal_ind_wq, &wcn->hal_ind_work);
+			wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "indication arrived\n");
+		}
 		mutex_unlock(&wcn->hal_ind_mutex);
+		if (msg_ind)
+			break;
+		/* FIXME: Do something smarter then just printing an error. */
+		wcn36xx_err("Run out of memory while handling SMD_EVENT (%d)\n",
+			    msg_header->msg_type);
 		break;
 	default:
 		wcn36xx_err("SMD_EVENT (%d) not supported\n",
-- 
1.8.3.2




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