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Message-ID: <81C3A93C17462B4BBD7E272753C1057923B924D522@EXDCVYMBSTM005.EQ1STM.local>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:33:35 +0200
From: Sjur BRENDELAND <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Daniel MARTENSSON <daniel.martensson@...ricsson.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] caif: Do not dereference NULL in chnl_recv_cb()
> In net/caif/chnl_net.c::chnl_recv_cb() we call skb_header_pointer()
> which may return NULL, but we do not check for a NULL pointer before
> dereferencing it.
> This patch adds such a NULL check and properly free's allocated memory
> and return an error (-EINVAL) on failure - much better than crashing..
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Thank you for fixing this, the patch looks good to me.
Acked-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>
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