Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Sat, 20 May 2006 15:27:23 -0400 | | From | Florin Malita <> | | Subject | [PATCH] orinoco: possible null pointer dereference in orinoco_rx_monitor() |
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If the skb allocation fails, the current error path calls dev_kfree_skb_irq() with a NULL argument. Also, 'err' is not being used.
Coverity CID: 275.
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c index 06523e2..c2d0b09 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c @@ -812,7 +812,6 @@ static void orinoco_rx_monitor(struct ne if (datalen > IEEE80211_DATA_LEN + 12) { printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: oversized monitor frame, " "data length = %d\n", dev->name, datalen); - err = -EIO; stats->rx_length_errors++; goto update_stats; } @@ -821,8 +820,7 @@ static void orinoco_rx_monitor(struct ne if (!skb) { printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Cannot allocate skb for monitor frame\n", dev->name); - err = -ENOMEM; - goto drop; + goto update_stats; } /* Copy the 802.11 header to the skb */
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