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tty: ipwireless: fix possible NULL dereference

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The function alloc_ctrl_packet() can fail and return NULL. Incase it
fails print an error message and exit.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Sudip Mukherjee 2016-04-06 12:25:39 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 9c5895057b
commit 76bbdcb35e
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drivers/tty/ipwireless/hardware.c
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@ -1572,6 +1572,11 @@ static void handle_received_SETUP_packet(struct ipw_hardware *hw,
sizeof(struct ipw_setup_reboot_msg_ack),
ADDR_SETUP_PROT, TL_PROTOCOLID_SETUP,
TL_SETUP_SIGNO_REBOOT_MSG_ACK);
if (!packet) {
pr_err(IPWIRELESS_PCCARD_NAME
": Not enough memory to send reboot packet");
break;
}
packet->header.length =
sizeof(struct TlSetupRebootMsgAck);
send_packet(hw, PRIO_SETUP, &packet->header);