Commit 955c1532 authored Sep 27, 2019 by Connor Kuehl Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Oct 01, 2019

staging: rtl8188eu: fix null dereference when kzalloc fails



If kzalloc() returns NULL, the error path doesn't stop the flow of
control from entering rtw_hal_read_chip_version() which dereferences the
null pointer. Fix this by adding a 'goto' to the error path to more
gracefully handle the issue and avoid proceeding with initialization
steps that we're no longer prepared to handle.

Also update the debug message to be more consistent with the other debug
messages in this function.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference after null check")

Signed-off-by: Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190927214415.899-1-connor.kuehl@canonical.com


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 2eed19b9

drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c

+4 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -348,8 +348,10 @@ static struct adapter rtw_usb_if1_init(struct dvobj_priv dvobj,
		}

		padapter->HalData = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hal_data_8188e), GFP_KERNEL);
		if (!padapter->HalData)
		DBG_88E("cant not alloc memory for HAL DATA\n");
		if (!padapter->HalData) {
		DBG_88E("Failed to allocate memory for HAL data\n");
		goto free_adapter;
		}

		/* step read_chip_version */
		rtw_hal_read_chip_version(padapter);