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rtl8192se: Fix BUG caused by failure to check skb allocation

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When downloading firmware into the device, the driver fails to check the
return when allocating an skb. When the allocation fails, a BUG can be
generated, as seen in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771656.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Larry Finger 2012-01-04 20:50:47 -06:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 874c60bad9
commit d90db4b12b
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drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.c
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@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ static bool _rtl92s_firmware_downloadcode(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
/* Allocate skb buffer to contain firmware */
/* info and tx descriptor info. */
skb = dev_alloc_skb(frag_length);
if (!skb)
return false;
skb_reserve(skb, extra_descoffset);
seg_ptr = (u8 *)skb_put(skb, (u32)(frag_length -
extra_descoffset));
@ -573,6 +575,8 @@ static bool _rtl92s_firmware_set_h2c_cmd(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 h2c_cmd,
len = _rtl92s_get_h2c_cmdlen(MAX_TRANSMIT_BUFFER_SIZE, 1, &cmd_len);
skb = dev_alloc_skb(len);
if (!skb)
return false;
cb_desc = (struct rtl_tcb_desc *)(skb->cb);
cb_desc->queue_index = TXCMD_QUEUE;
cb_desc->cmd_or_init = DESC_PACKET_TYPE_NORMAL;