Re: [PATCH] ISDN: Avoid a potential NULL ptr deref in ippp

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Any reason why we can't apply the patch below?

On 30/10/06, Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:

There's a potential problem in isdn_ppp.c::isdn_ppp_decompress().
dev_alloc_skb() may fail and return NULL. If it does we will be passing a
NULL skb_out to ipc->decompress() and may also end up
dereferencing a NULL pointer at
    *proto = isdn_ppp_strip_proto(skb_out);
Correct this by testing 'skb_out' against NULL early and bail out.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
---

 drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
index 119412d..5a97ce6 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
@@ -2536,6 +2536,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *isdn_ppp_decompre
                rsparm.maxdlen = IPPP_RESET_MAXDATABYTES;

                skb_out = dev_alloc_skb(is->mru + PPP_HDRLEN);
+               if (!skb_out) {
+                       kfree_skb(skb);
+                       printk(KERN_ERR "ippp: decomp memory allocation failure\n");
+                       return NULL;
+               }
                len = ipc->decompress(stat, skb, skb_out, &rsparm);
                kfree_skb(skb);
                if (len <= 0) {



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