2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez commit d1a2627a29667fe7c4a9d06e1579a2d65bd39bba upstream. When sending a message to user space using wimax_msg(), if nla_put() fails, correctly interpret the return code from wimax_msg_alloc() as an err ptr and return the error code instead of crashing (as it is assuming than non-NULL means the pointer is ok). Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/wimax/op-msg.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/wimax/op-msg.c +++ b/net/wimax/op-msg.c @@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ struct sk_buff *wimax_msg_alloc(struct w } result = nla_put(skb, WIMAX_GNL_MSG_DATA, size, msg); if (result < 0) { - dev_err(dev, "no memory to add payload in attribute\n"); + dev_err(dev, "no memory to add payload (msg %p size %zu) in " + "attribute: %d\n", msg, size, result); goto error_nla_put; } genlmsg_end(skb, genl_msg); @@ -302,10 +303,10 @@ int wimax_msg(struct wimax_dev *wimax_de struct sk_buff *skb; skb = wimax_msg_alloc(wimax_dev, pipe_name, buf, size, gfp_flags); - if (skb == NULL) - goto error_msg_new; - result = wimax_msg_send(wimax_dev, skb); -error_msg_new: + if (IS_ERR(skb)) + result = PTR_ERR(skb); + else + result = wimax_msg_send(wimax_dev, skb); return result; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wimax_msg); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/