This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mt7601u: check return value of alloc_skb

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: mt7601u-check-return-value-of-alloc_skb.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:57:32 CET 2018

From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:00:23 +0800 Subject: mt7601u: check return value of alloc_skb

From: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com

[ Upstream commit 5fb01e91daf84ad1e50edfcf63116ecbe31e7ba7 ]

Function alloc_skb() will return a NULL pointer if there is no enough memory. However, in function mt7601u_mcu_msg_alloc(), its return value is not validated before it is used. This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski kubakici@wp.pl Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo kvalo@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c @@ -66,8 +66,10 @@ mt7601u_mcu_msg_alloc(struct mt7601u_dev WARN_ON(len % 4); /* if length is not divisible by 4 we need to pad */

skb = alloc_skb(len + MT_DMA_HDR_LEN + 4, GFP_KERNEL); - skb_reserve(skb, MT_DMA_HDR_LEN); - memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len); + if (skb) { + skb_reserve(skb, MT_DMA_HDR_LEN); + memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), data, len); + }

return skb; } @@ -170,6 +172,8 @@ static int mt7601u_mcu_function_select(s };

skb = mt7601u_mcu_msg_alloc(dev, &msg, sizeof(msg)); + if (!skb) + return -ENOMEM; return mt7601u_mcu_msg_send(dev, skb, CMD_FUN_SET_OP, func == 5); }

@@ -205,6 +209,8 @@ mt7601u_mcu_calibrate(struct mt7601u_dev };

skb = mt7601u_mcu_msg_alloc(dev, &msg, sizeof(msg)); + if (!skb) + return -ENOMEM; return mt7601u_mcu_msg_send(dev, skb, CMD_CALIBRATION_OP, true); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@163.com are

queue-4.4/mt7601u-check-return-value-of-alloc_skb.patch queue-4.4/rndis_wlan-add-return-value-validation.patch queue-4.4/staging-wilc1000-fix-unchecked-return-value.patch queue-4.4/qlcnic-fix-unchecked-return-value.patch queue-4.4/wan-pc300too-abort-path-on-failure.patch