Commit 445c8132 authored by Johan Hovold's avatar Johan Hovold Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check

Add the missing error handling when allocating the transmit buffer to
avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer in write() should the allocation
ever fail.

Fixes: ba4dc61f ("Staging: ipack: add support for IP-OCTAL mezzanine board")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # 3.5
Acked-by: default avatarSamuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210917114622.5412-5-johan@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent cd20d592
......@@ -385,7 +385,9 @@ static int ipoctal_inst_slot(struct ipoctal *ipoctal, unsigned int bus_nr,
channel = &ipoctal->channel[i];
tty_port_init(&channel->tty_port);
tty_port_alloc_xmit_buf(&channel->tty_port);
res = tty_port_alloc_xmit_buf(&channel->tty_port);
if (res)
continue;
channel->tty_port.ops = &ipoctal_tty_port_ops;
ipoctal_reset_stats(&channel->stats);
......
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