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From: Abraham Arce <abraham.arce.moreno@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: KS8851: Possible NULL dereferenced in ks8851_rx_pkts
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 02:03:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <z2ocb8016981004080003h7f5ca358r7a1a4106809909ce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

These changes avoid a possible dereference in skb_reserve when skb is
NULL. I am increasing rx dropped packet count but not sure about how
to handle the dump of frames. Any advice is appreciated.

diff --git a/drivers/net/ks8851.c b/drivers/net/ks8851.c
index d6dc29b..a1aa757 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ks8851.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ks8851.c
@@ -534,8 +534,11 @@ static void ks8851_rx_pkts(struct ks8851_net *ks)

 		if (rxlen > 0) {
 			skb = netdev_alloc_skb(ks->netdev, rxlen + 2 + 8);
-			if (!skb) {
+			if (unlikely(!skb)) {
 				/* todo - dump frame and move on */
+				ks_dbg(ks, "No free memory, packet dropped\n");
+				ks->netdev->stats.rx_dropped++;
+				return;
 			}

 			/* two bytes to ensure ip is aligned, and four bytes

Best Regards
Abraham

             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08  7:03 Abraham Arce [this message]
2010-04-13  8:28 ` KS8851: Possible NULL dereferenced in ks8851_rx_pkts David Miller
2010-05-05  8:41   ` Abraham Arce

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