Commit 8c893ff6 authored Jun 05, 2006 by Florin Malita Committed by David S. Miller Jun 05, 2006

[IRDA]: Missing allocation result check in irlap_change_speed().



The skb allocation may fail, which can result in a NULL pointer dereference
in irlap_queue_xmit().

Coverity CID: 434.

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 9bc18091

net/irda/irlap.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -884,6 +884,7 @@ static void irlap_change_speed(struct irlap_cb *self, __u32 speed, int now)
		if (now) {
		/* Send down empty frame to trigger speed change */
		skb = dev_alloc_skb(0);
		if (skb)
		irlap_queue_xmit(self, skb);
		}
		}