Patch "cfg80211: handle failed skb allocation" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    cfg80211: handle failed skb allocation

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cfg80211-handle-failed-skb-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 16a910a6722b7a8680409e634c7c0dac073c01e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 15:23:10 +0300
Subject: cfg80211: handle failed skb allocation

From: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>

commit 16a910a6722b7a8680409e634c7c0dac073c01e4 upstream.

Handle the case when dev_alloc_skb returns NULL.

Fixes: 2b67f944f88c2 ("cfg80211: reuse existing page fragments in A-MSDU rx")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/wireless/util.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -721,6 +721,8 @@ __ieee80211_amsdu_copy(struct sk_buff *s
 	 * alignment since sizeof(struct ethhdr) is 14.
 	 */
 	frame = dev_alloc_skb(hlen + sizeof(struct ethhdr) + 2 + cur_len);
+	if (!frame)
+		return NULL;
 
 	skb_reserve(frame, hlen + sizeof(struct ethhdr) + 2);
 	skb_copy_bits(skb, offset, skb_put(frame, cur_len), cur_len);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregory.greenman@intel.com are

queue-4.6/cfg80211-handle-failed-skb-allocation.patch