Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Johan Hovold <> | Subject | [PATCH 4/6] ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:46:20 +0200 |
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Add the missing error handling when allocating the transmit buffer to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer in write() should the allocation ever fail.
Fixes: ba4dc61fe8c5 ("Staging: ipack: add support for IP-OCTAL mezzanine board") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> --- drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c index d6875aa6a295..61c41f535510 100644 --- a/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c +++ b/drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c @@ -385,7 +385,9 @@ static int ipoctal_inst_slot(struct ipoctal *ipoctal, unsigned int bus_nr, channel = &ipoctal->channel[i]; tty_port_init(&channel->tty_port); - tty_port_alloc_xmit_buf(&channel->tty_port); + res = tty_port_alloc_xmit_buf(&channel->tty_port); + if (res) + continue; channel->tty_port.ops = &ipoctal_tty_port_ops; ipoctal_reset_stats(&channel->stats); -- 2.32.0
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