From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3c515: Write outside array bounds
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:13:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A705904.4020505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6CC7BD.9020602@gmail.com>
Op 26-07-09 23:16, Jarek Poplawski schreef:
> Roel Kluin wrote, On 07/26/2009 12:35 AM:
>
>> if dev_alloc_skb() fails on the first iteration, a write to
>> cp->rx_ring[-1] occurs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Please review: can we error return like this?
>
>
> I doubt we can return here: there is a lot of cleaning missing.
>
> Jarek P.
I took drivers/net/3c59x.c as an example
Is this going in the right direction?
diff --git a/drivers/net/3c515.c b/drivers/net/3c515.c
index 3e00fa8..e94867d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/3c515.c
+++ b/drivers/net/3c515.c
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static int corkscrew_open(struct net_device *dev)
skb = dev_alloc_skb(PKT_BUF_SZ);
vp->rx_skbuff[i] = skb;
if (skb == NULL)
- break; /* Bad news! */
+ goto error; /* Bad news! */
skb->dev = dev; /* Mark as being used by this device. */
skb_reserve(skb, 2); /* Align IP on 16 byte boundaries */
vp->rx_ring[i].addr = isa_virt_to_bus(skb->data);
@@ -864,6 +864,17 @@ static int corkscrew_open(struct net_device *dev)
ioaddr + EL3_CMD);
return 0;
+error:
+ pr_emerg("%s: no memory for rx ring\n", dev->name);
+ int j;
+ for (j = 0; j < i; j++) {
+ if (vp->rx_skbuff[j]) {
+ dev_kfree_skb(vp->rx_skbuff[j]);
+ vp->rx_skbuff[j] = NULL;
+ }
+ }
+ free_irq(dev->irq, dev);
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
static void corkscrew_timer(unsigned long data)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 22:35 [PATCH] 3c515: Write outside array bounds Roel Kluin
2009-07-26 21:16 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-07-29 14:13 ` Roel Kluin [this message]
2009-07-29 20:43 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-07-30 10:26 ` Roel Kluin
2009-07-30 20:28 ` David Miller
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