From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/irda: fix NULL pointer dereference on memory allocation failure Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20160725.112515.1809603371800148887.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1469252630-14008-1-git-send-email-vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: samuel@sortiz.org, irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org To: vegard.nossum@oracle.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1469252630-14008-1-git-send-email-vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Vegard Nossum Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 07:43:50 +0200 > I ran into this: ... > The problem is that irda_open_tsap() can fail and leave self->tsap = NULL, > and then irttp_connect_request() almost immediately dereferences it. > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.