This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled isdn_ppp: Add checks for allocation failure in isdn_ppp_open() to the 3.10-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: isdn_ppp-add-checks-for-allocation-failure-in-isdn_ppp_open.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 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 Tue Jan 26 22:24:47 PST 2016 From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 16:21:24 +0000 Subject: isdn_ppp: Add checks for allocation failure in isdn_ppp_open() Status: RO Content-Length: 996 Lines: 37 From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0baa57d8dc32db78369d8b5176ef56c5e2e18ab3 ] Compile-tested only. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c @@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ isdn_ppp_open(int min, struct file *file is->compflags = 0; is->reset = isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc(is); + if (!is->reset) + return -ENOMEM; is->lp = NULL; is->mp_seqno = 0; /* MP sequence number */ @@ -320,6 +322,10 @@ isdn_ppp_open(int min, struct file *file * VJ header compression init */ is->slcomp = slhc_init(16, 16); /* not necessary for 2. link in bundle */ + if (!is->slcomp) { + isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_free(is); + return -ENOMEM; + } #endif #ifdef CONFIG_IPPP_FILTER is->pass_filter = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ppp-slip-validate-vj-compression-slot-parameters-completely.patch queue-3.10/isdn_ppp-add-checks-for-allocation-failure-in-isdn_ppp_open.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