caif: fix NULL pointer check

[ Upstream commit c66b9b7d365444b433307ebb18734757cb668a02 ]

Reported-by: <rucsoftsec@gmail.com>
Resolves-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug?44441
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
index 3df0c0f8b8bf93ca98a8829e7c09162a70f384c4..82b1802b1d3d49d3c03c3e3e1444f6f59d3a248f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ static int ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
        sprintf(name, "cf%s", tty->name);
        dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*ser), name, caifdev_setup);
+       if (!dev)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        ser = netdev_priv(dev);
        ser->tty = tty_kref_get(tty);
        ser->dev = dev;