Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: brcmfmac: pcie: handle randbuf allocation failure

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Tue Mar 12 2024 - 11:32:44 EST


Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The kzalloc() in brcmf_pcie_download_fw_nvram() will return null
> if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we use
> get_random_bytes() to generate random bytes in the randbuf, the
> null pointer dereference bug will happen.
>
> In order to prevent allocation failure, this patch adds a separate
> function using buffer on kernel stack to generate random bytes in
> the randbuf, which could prevent the kernel stack from overflow.
>
> Fixes: 91918ce88d9f ("wifi: brcmfmac: pcie: Provide a buffer of random bytes to the device")
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

316f790ebcf9 wifi: brcmfmac: pcie: handle randbuf allocation failure

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