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mac802154: fakelb: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference.

fakelb_hw_deliver creates a copy of the skb's header which can
potentially return NULL so we now check for this before actually
delivering to the 802.15.4 MAC layer.

Signed-off-by: Martin Townsend <martin.townsend@xsilon.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Martin Townsend 10 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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      drivers/net/ieee802154/fakelb.c

+ 2 - 1
drivers/net/ieee802154/fakelb.c

@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ fakelb_hw_deliver(struct fakelb_dev_priv *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	spin_lock(&priv->lock);
 	spin_lock(&priv->lock);
 	if (priv->working) {
 	if (priv->working) {
 		newskb = pskb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		newskb = pskb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
-		ieee802154_rx_irqsafe(priv->hw, newskb, 0xcc);
+		if (newskb)
+			ieee802154_rx_irqsafe(priv->hw, newskb, 0xcc);
 	}
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
 	spin_unlock(&priv->lock);
 }
 }