4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cd27b96bc13841ee7af25837a6ae86fee87273d6 ] In commit 98e3862ca2b1 ("kcm: fix 0-length case for kcm_sendmsg()") I tried to avoid skb allocation for 0-length case, but missed a check for NULL pointer in the non EOR case. Fixes: 98e3862ca2b1 ("kcm: fix 0-length case for kcm_sendmsg()") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/kcm/kcmsock.c +++ b/net/kcm/kcmsock.c @@ -1044,8 +1044,10 @@ wait_for_memory: } else { /* Message not complete, save state */ partial_message: - kcm->seq_skb = head; - kcm_tx_msg(head)->last_skb = skb; + if (head) { + kcm->seq_skb = head; + kcm_tx_msg(head)->last_skb = skb; + } } KCM_STATS_ADD(kcm->stats.tx_bytes, copied);