The patch titled
irda: missing allocation result check in irlap_change_speed()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
irda-missing-allocation-result-check-in-irlap_change_speed.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: irda: missing allocation result check in irlap_change_speed()
From: Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx>
The skb allocation may fail, which can result in a NULL pointer dereference
in irlap_queue_xmit().
Coverity CID: 434.
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
net/irda/irlap.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN net/irda/irlap.c~irda-missing-allocation-result-check-in-irlap_change_speed net/irda/irlap.c
--- devel/net/irda/irlap.c~irda-missing-allocation-result-check-in-irlap_change_speed 2006-05-24 17:39:54.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/net/irda/irlap.c 2006-05-24 17:39:54.000000000 -0700
@@ -884,7 +884,8 @@ static void irlap_change_speed(struct ir
if (now) {
/* Send down empty frame to trigger speed change */
skb = dev_alloc_skb(0);
- irlap_queue_xmit(self, skb);
+ if (skb)
+ irlap_queue_xmit(self, skb);
}
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from fmalita@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
affs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-affs_rename.patch
git-mtd.patch
git-netdev-all.patch
irda-missing-allocation-result-check-in-irlap_change_speed.patch
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