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| author | John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> | 2016-01-11 08:38:44 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-31 22:25:51 +0300 |
| commit | fe8383327a1b33501be00f810a7b3397c2d20616 (patch) | |
| tree | 65eb27fe76702abc137fab0f6204b09af15521c4 /net | |
| parent | 96cd854dd6d8df95284e4fa2d04a36a1889fbae1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fe8383327a1b33501be00f810a7b3397c2d20616.tar.xz | |
net: pktgen: fix null ptr deref in skb allocation
[ Upstream commit 3de03596dfeee48bc803c1d1a6daf60a459929f3 ]
Fix possible null pointer dereference that may occur when calling
skb_reserve() on a null skb.
Fixes: 879c7220e82 ("net: pktgen: Observe needed_headroom of the device")
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/pktgen.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index de8d5cc5eb24..4da4d51a2ccf 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -2787,7 +2787,9 @@ static struct sk_buff *pktgen_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev, } else { skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(dev, size, GFP_NOWAIT); } - skb_reserve(skb, LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev)); + + if (likely(skb)) + skb_reserve(skb, LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev)); return skb; } |