This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cfg80211: handle failed skb allocation
to the 4.6-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:
cfg80211-handle-failed-skb-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 16a910a6722b7a8680409e634c7c0dac073c01e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 15:23:10 +0300
Subject: cfg80211: handle failed skb allocation
From: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 16a910a6722b7a8680409e634c7c0dac073c01e4 upstream.
Handle the case when dev_alloc_skb returns NULL.
Fixes: 2b67f944f88c2 ("cfg80211: reuse existing page fragments in A-MSDU rx")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/wireless/util.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -721,6 +721,8 @@ __ieee80211_amsdu_copy(struct sk_buff *s
* alignment since sizeof(struct ethhdr) is 14.
*/
frame = dev_alloc_skb(hlen + sizeof(struct ethhdr) + 2 + cur_len);
+ if (!frame)
+ return NULL;
skb_reserve(frame, hlen + sizeof(struct ethhdr) + 2);
skb_copy_bits(skb, offset, skb_put(frame, cur_len), cur_len);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.6/cfg80211-handle-failed-skb-allocation.patch
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