wifi: mwifiex: avoid possible NULL skb pointer dereference

CVE-2023-53384

What is CVE-2023-53384?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mwifiex: avoid possible NULL skb pointer dereference

In 'mwifiex_handle_uap_rx_forward()', always check the value returned by 'skb_copy()' to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference in 'mwifiex_uap_queue_bridged_pkt()', and drop original skb in case of copying failure.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

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