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Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:47:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Shyam Sunder Reddy Padira To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, --to=ethantidmore06@gmail.com Cc: nayana.mariyappa@gmail.com, s9430939@naver.com, andriy.shevchenko@intel.com, kees@kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shyam Sunder Reddy Padira Subject: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: avoid NULL pointer dereference in rtw_cbuf_alloc Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:14:17 +0530 Message-ID: <20260413224417.5674-2-shyamsunderreddypadira@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The return value of kzalloc_flex() is used without ensuring that the allocation succeeded, and the pointer is dereferenced unconditionally. Guard the access to the allocated structure to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference if the allocation fails. Fixes: 980cd426a25747daf8ed25e2a1904b2d26ffbb3d ("staging: rtl8723bs: repla= ce rtw_zmalloc() with kzalloc()") Signed-off-by: Shyam Sunder Reddy Padira --- changes in v2: -Fixed spelling mistakes(dereference, potential) -Added Fixes tag --- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c b/drivers/sta= ging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c index 7959daeabc6f..4cfdf7c62344 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/osdep_service.c @@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ struct rtw_cbuf *rtw_cbuf_alloc(u32 size) struct rtw_cbuf *cbuf; =20 cbuf =3D kzalloc_flex(*cbuf, bufs, size); - cbuf->size =3D size; + if (cbuf) + cbuf->size =3D size; =20 return cbuf; } --=20 2.43.0