This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tipc: fix error handling of expanding buffer headroom to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tipc-fix-error-handling-of-expanding-buffer-headroom.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Dec 11 11:38:06 EST 2015 From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:57:57 +0800 Subject: tipc: fix error handling of expanding buffer headroom From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7098356baca723513e97ca0020df4e18bc353be3 ] Coverity says: --- net/tipc/udp_media.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/tipc/udp_media.c +++ b/net/tipc/udp_media.c @@ -159,8 +159,11 @@ static int tipc_udp_send_msg(struct net struct sk_buff *clone; struct rtable *rt; - if (skb_headroom(skb) < UDP_MIN_HEADROOM) - pskb_expand_head(skb, UDP_MIN_HEADROOM, 0, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (skb_headroom(skb) < UDP_MIN_HEADROOM) { + err = pskb_expand_head(skb, UDP_MIN_HEADROOM, 0, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (err) + goto tx_error; + } clone = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); skb_set_inner_protocol(clone, htons(ETH_P_TIPC)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.3/tipc-fix-error-handling-of-expanding-buffer-headroom.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html