From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031053Ab2HGWn5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 18:43:57 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:56573 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030989Ab2HGWmt (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 18:42:49 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, rucsoftsec@gmail.com, Alan Cox , "David S. Miller" Subject: [ 088/109] caif: fix NULL pointer check Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:35:47 -0700 Message-Id: <20120807222050.819416882@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120807222043.089735600@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120807222043.089735600@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-20.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alan Cox [ Upstream commit c66b9b7d365444b433307ebb18734757cb668a02 ] Reported-by: Resolves-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug?44441 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c +++ b/drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c @@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ static int ldisc_open(struct tty_struct sprintf(name, "cf%s", tty->name); dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*ser), name, caifdev_setup); + if (!dev) + return -ENOMEM; + ser = netdev_priv(dev); ser->tty = tty_kref_get(tty); ser->dev = dev;