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fix possible NULL deref on low memory condition in capidrv.c::send_message()
authorJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:27:51 +0000 (01:27 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:43:10 +0000 (09:43 -0700)
commitb1b2e7cf4a9742f61d76fcb419b1fd13159876a5
treeda6855dbf5d1216e53d7ab27b7a2b1cce6a36a1b
parent4e3dfacaa0b8e469f412ae776f222102042d7e24
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