netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] korina: add error-handling to korina_alloc

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Message-Id: <20090813.162743.29979567.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:27:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	n0-1@...ewrt.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	florian@...nwrt.org, roel.kluin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] korina: add error-handling to korina_alloc_ring

From: Phil Sutter <n0-1@...ewrt.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:52:32 +0200

> This also avoids a potential buffer overflow in case the very first
> receive descriptor fails to allocate, as an index of -1 would be used
> afterwards. Kudos to Roel Kluin for pointing this out and providing an
> initial patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <n0-1@...ewrt.org>

Applied to net-next-2.6
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