From: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:34:52 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [IRDA]: Missing allocation result check in irlap_change_speed().
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc6~1^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c893ff6abbac0c7c05b1cb9bfb6e2dfc4538c75;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git

[IRDA]: Missing allocation result check in irlap_change_speed().

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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/irda/irlap.c b/net/irda/irlap.c
index 7029618..a165286 100644
--- a/net/irda/irlap.c
+++ b/net/irda/irlap.c
@@ -884,7 +884,8 @@ static void irlap_change_speed(struct irlap_cb *self, __u32 speed, int now)
 	if (now) {
 		/* Send down empty frame to trigger speed change */
 		skb = dev_alloc_skb(0);
-		irlap_queue_xmit(self, skb);
+		if (skb)
+			irlap_queue_xmit(self, skb);
 	}
 }