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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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Jesper Juhl 2007-10-16 01:27:51 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4e3dfacaa0
commit b1b2e7cf4a
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drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c
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@ -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);