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Message-Id: <20120817030244.740450406@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:02:49 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
<rucsoftsec@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [ 06/37] caif: fix NULL pointer check
3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
[ Upstream commit c66b9b7d365444b433307ebb18734757cb668a02 ]
Reported-by: <rucsoftsec@...il.com>
Resolves-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug?44441
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
index 23406e6..ae286a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ static int ldisc_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
sprintf(name, "cf%s", tty->name);
dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*ser), name, caifdev_setup);
+ if (!dev)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
ser = netdev_priv(dev);
ser->tty = tty_kref_get(tty);
ser->dev = dev;
--
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