From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] drivers cris: return on NULL dev_alloc_skb() Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:09:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4554A453.1090805@garzik.org> References: <200611090349.kA93nFUE003603@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@cs.washington.edu, starvik@axis.com Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:14980 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946721AbWKJQJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:09:57 -0500 To: akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <200611090349.kA93nFUE003603@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org akpm@osdl.org wrote: > From: David Rientjes > > If the next descriptor array entry cannot be allocated by dev_alloc_skb(), > return immediately so it is not dereferenced later. We cannot register the > device with a partial descriptor list. > > Cc: Mikael Starvik > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes > Cc: Jeff Garzik > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton applied