[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/cxgbe: fix possible null pointer dereference' has been queued to LTS release 16.11.2

[Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 16.11.2

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable
yet. It will be pushed if I get no objections before 04/26/17.
So please shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From 3e10f568be1d33ffecbb29e9c4584dc6cc20f10e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henry Cai <caihe@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:32:20 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] net/cxgbe: fix possible null pointer dereference

[ upstream commit 4a8f7cdd2281c7d904eae5b5ee92e4214e945e51 ]

Check return value of malloc.

Fixes: 3bd122eef2cc ("cxgbe/base: add hardware API for Chelsio T5 series adapters")

Signed-off-by: Henry Cai <caihe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
---
 drivers/net/cxgbe/base/t4_hw.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/cxgbe/base/t4_hw.c b/drivers/net/cxgbe/base/t4_hw.c
index c089b06..9dca8da 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cxgbe/base/t4_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cxgbe/base/t4_hw.c
@@ -359,6 +359,9 @@ int t4_wr_mbox_meat_timeout(struct adapter *adap, int mbox,
 	struct mbox_entry entry;
 	u32 pcie_fw = 0;
 
+	if (!temp)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	if ((size & 15) || size > MBOX_LEN) {
 		free(temp);
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
1.9.0