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>
Thu, 7 Oct 2021 05:53:17 +0000 (07:53 +0200)
commit382ef7ff1854d527f5ff394d337f5f4f4952ec18
tree1a8e094d2bc6128a9b886b75d45eb52956aee554
parentfcd28f229175aa644511d64250461fa315c4c90e
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