fix possible NULL deref on low memory condition in capidrv.c::send_message()

If we fail to allocate an skb in
drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c::send_message(), then we'll end up
dereferencing a NULL pointer.
Since out of memory conditions are not unheard of, I believe it
is better to print a error message and just return rather than
bring down the whole kernel.
Sure, doing this may upset some application, but that's still
better than crashing the whole system.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c
index 23b6f7bc16b7..476012b6dfac 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c
@@ -506,9 +506,14 @@ static void send_message(capidrv_contr * card, _cmsg * cmsg)
 {
         struct sk_buff *skb;
         size_t len;
+
         capi_cmsg2message(cmsg, cmsg->buf);
         len = CAPIMSG_LEN(cmsg->buf);
         skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+        if (!skb) {
+                printk(KERN_ERR "capidrv::send_message: can't allocate mem\n");
+                return;
+        }
         memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), cmsg->buf, len);
         if (capi20_put_message(&global.ap, skb) != CAPI_NOERROR)
                 kfree_skb(skb);