The patch titled ISDN: correctly handle isdn_writebuf_stub() errors has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is isdn-unsafe-interaction-between-isdn_write-and-isdn_writebuf_stub.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> isdn_writebuf_stub() forgets to detect memory allocation and uaccess errors. And when that's fixed, if a error happens the caller will just keep on looping. So change the caller to detect the error, and to return it. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c~isdn-unsafe-interaction-between-isdn_write-and-isdn_writebuf_stub drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c --- 25/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c~isdn-unsafe-interaction-between-isdn_write-and-isdn_writebuf_stub Fri Apr 21 14:13:37 2006 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c Fri Apr 21 14:13:37 2006 @@ -1177,9 +1177,8 @@ isdn_write(struct file *file, const char goto out; } chidx = isdn_minor2chan(minor); - while (isdn_writebuf_stub(drvidx, chidx, buf, count) != count) + while ((retval = isdn_writebuf_stub(drvidx, chidx, buf, count)) == 0) interruptible_sleep_on(&dev->drv[drvidx]->snd_waitq[chidx]); - retval = count; goto out; } if (minor <= ISDN_MINOR_CTRLMAX) { @@ -1951,9 +1950,10 @@ isdn_writebuf_stub(int drvidx, int chan, struct sk_buff *skb = alloc_skb(hl + len, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) - return 0; + return -ENOMEM; skb_reserve(skb, hl); - copy_from_user(skb_put(skb, len), buf, len); + if (!copy_from_user(skb_put(skb, len), buf, len)) + return -EFAULT; ret = dev->drv[drvidx]->interface->writebuf_skb(drvidx, chan, 1, skb); if (ret <= 0) dev_kfree_skb(skb); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch git-mtd.patch small-whitespace-cleanup-for-qlogic-driver.patch reduce-nr-of-ptr-derefs-in-fs-jffs2-summaryc.patch oss-cs46xx-cleanup-and-tiny-bugfix.patch i4l-memory-leak-fix-for-sc_ioctl.patch isdn-unsafe-interaction-between-isdn_write-and-isdn_writebuf_stub.patch debug-shared-irqs.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-fs.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-arch.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-kernel.patch remove-redundant-null-checks-before-free-in-drivers.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html