From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ppp@samba.org
Subject: [PATCH] 2.4.20/2.5.69 ppp_generic kmalloc()!=NULL check
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 04:36:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030512043618.B29781@google.com> (raw)
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In ppp_generic.c:cardmap_set(), the return value from 2 kmalloc() calls
are not checked.
/fc
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--- linux-2.4.20/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c.orig Fri Apr 25 02:02:14 2003
+++ linux-2.4.20/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c Fri Apr 25 02:21:36 2003
@@ -2270,17 +2270,20 @@ ppp_create_interface(int unit, int *retp
dev->priv = ppp;
dev->features |= NETIF_F_DYNALLOC;
+ if (ret = cardmap_set(&all_ppp_units, unit, ppp))
+ goto err_unlock;
+
rtnl_lock();
ret = register_netdevice(dev);
rtnl_unlock();
if (ret != 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR "PPP: couldn't register device %s (%d)\n",
dev->name, ret);
+ cardmap_set(&all_ppp_units, unit, NULL))
goto err_unlock;
}
atomic_inc(&ppp_unit_count);
- cardmap_set(&all_ppp_units, unit, ppp);
up(&all_ppp_sem);
*retp = 0;
return ppp;
@@ -2542,6 +2545,8 @@ static void cardmap_set(struct cardmap *
do {
/* need a new top level */
struct cardmap *np = kmalloc(sizeof(*np), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (np == 0)
+ return -ENOMEM;
memset(np, 0, sizeof(*np));
np->ptr[0] = p;
if (p != NULL) {
@@ -2557,6 +2562,8 @@ static void cardmap_set(struct cardmap *
i = (nr >> p->shift) & CARDMAP_MASK;
if (p->ptr[i] == NULL) {
struct cardmap *np = kmalloc(sizeof(*np), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (np == 0)
+ return -ENOMEM;
memset(np, 0, sizeof(*np));
np->shift = p->shift - CARDMAP_ORDER;
np->parent = p;
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