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[v4,10/12] net/ntnic: check result of malloc

Message ID 20241114184452.31854-11-stephen@networkplumber.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers
Series memset security fixes |

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Context Check Description
ci/checkpatch success coding style OK

Commit Message

Stephen Hemminger Nov. 14, 2024, 6:43 p.m. UTC 
Need to check the result of malloc() before calling memset.
This is only place in this driver that forgot, other code
does check.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c b/drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c
index ca6aba6db2..f275e64da3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ntnic/nthw/nthw_rac.c
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ 
 nthw_rac_t *nthw_rac_new(void)
 {
 	nthw_rac_t *p = malloc(sizeof(nthw_rac_t));
-	memset(p, 0, sizeof(nthw_rac_t));
+
+	if (p)
+		memset(p, 0, sizeof(nthw_rac_t));
 	return p;
 }