From b1b2e7cf4a9742f61d76fcb419b1fd13159876a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:27:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix possible NULL deref on low memory condition in
capidrv.c::send_message()
If we fail to allocate an skb in
drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c::send_message(), then we'll end up
dereferencing a NULL pointer.
Since out of memory conditions are not unheard of, I believe it
is better to print a error message and just return rather than
bring down the whole kernel.
Sure, doing this may upset some application, but that's still
better than crashing the whole system.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c
index 23b6f7bc16b7e..476012b6dfac3 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c
@@ -506,9 +506,14 @@ static void send_message(capidrv_contr * card, _cmsg * cmsg)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
size_t len;
+
capi_cmsg2message(cmsg, cmsg->buf);
len = CAPIMSG_LEN(cmsg->buf);
skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!skb) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "capidrv::send_message: can't allocate mem\n");
+ return;
+ }
memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), cmsg->buf, len);
if (capi20_put_message(&global.ap, skb) != CAPI_NOERROR)
kfree_skb(skb);
--
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