Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 16:22:22 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] irda: missing allocation result check in irlap_change_speed() | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 20:13:26 -0400
> The skb allocation may fail, which can result in a NULL pointer > dereference in irlap_queue_xmit(). > > Coverity CID: 434. > > Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
If the allocation fails we should probably do something more interesting here, such as schedule a timer to try again later. Otherwise the speed change will silently never occur. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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