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ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:46:20 +0000 (13:46 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 Oct 2021 13:31:25 +0000 (15:31 +0200)
commiteee92da3b0a1371e52505169003ba8bfabfe44d2
tree5d77d43911cd3e4bc8fd5d52b36ccd6d230ead9d
parent81e8ac7f3056454b0ebd6e45f843052c8fae491f
ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check

commit 445c8132727728dc297492a7d9fc074af3e94ba3 upstream.

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
Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210917114622.5412-5-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c