From: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c::_rtl_pci_rx_interrupt() we call
dev_alloc_skb(), which may fail and return NULL, but we do not check the
returned value against NULL before dereferencing the returned pointer.
This may lead to a NULL pointer dereference which means we'll crash - not
good.
In a separate call to dev_alloc_skb(), the debug level is changed so that
the failure message will always be logged.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
John,
Material for 2.6.38.
Larry
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
@@ -619,6 +619,13 @@ static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct
struct sk_buff *uskb = NULL;
u8 *pdata;
uskb = dev_alloc_skb(skb->len + 128);
+ if (!uskb) {
+ RT_TRACE(rtlpriv,
+ (COMP_INTR | COMP_RECV),
+ DBG_EMERG,
+ ("can't alloc rx skb\n"));
+ goto done;
+ }
memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(uskb),
&rx_status,
sizeof(rx_status));
@@ -641,7 +648,7 @@ static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct
new_skb = dev_alloc_skb(rtlpci->rxbuffersize);
if (unlikely(!new_skb)) {
RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, (COMP_INTR | COMP_RECV),
- DBG_DMESG,
+ DBG_EMERG,
("can't alloc skb for rx\n"));
goto done;
}
@@ -1066,9 +1073,9 @@ static int _rtl_pci_init_rx_ring(struct
struct sk_buff *skb =
dev_alloc_skb(rtlpci->rxbuffersize);
u32 bufferaddress;
- entry = &rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc[i];
if (!skb)
return 0;
+ entry = &rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].desc[i];
/*skb->dev = dev; */
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