netdev - Re: [PATCH net] vsock: cope with memory allocation failure at socket creation time

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Message-Id: <20190208.223257.815387749876892346.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:32:57 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhansen@...are.com, sgarzare@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] vsock: cope with memory allocation failure at
 socket creation time

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Thu,  7 Feb 2019 14:13:18 +0100

> In the unlikely event that the kmalloc call in vmci_transport_socket_init()
> fails, we end-up calling vmci_transport_destruct() with a NULL vmci_trans()
> and oopsing.
> 
> This change addresses the above explicitly checking for zero vmci_trans()
> at destruction time.
> 
> Reported-by: Xiumei Mu <xmu@...hat.com>
> Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.