[PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: core: rtw_wlan_util.c: Fix for NULL dereference

From: Kumar Amit Mehta
Date: Mon Jan 26 2015 - 10:39:39 EST


In rtw_check_bcn_info(), check the return value of kzalloc() before
dereferencing it, to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c
index 3e9b6e9..a3ffc69 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c
@@ -931,6 +931,8 @@ int rtw_check_bcn_info(struct adapter *Adapter, u8 *pframe, u32 packet_len)
}

bssid = kzalloc(sizeof(struct wlan_bssid_ex), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!bssid)
+ return _FAIL;

subtype = GetFrameSubType(pframe) >> 4;

--
2.1.0

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