Re: [PATCH] caif: Do not dereference NULL in chnl_recv_cb()

[David Miller]

From: Sjur BRENDELAND <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:33:35 +0200

>> In net/caif/chnl_net.c::chnl_recv_cb() we call skb_header_pointer()
>> which may return NULL, but we do not check for a NULL pointer before
>> dereferencing it.
>> This patch adds such a NULL check and properly free's allocated memory
>> and return an error (-EINVAL) on failure - much better than crashing..
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thank you for fixing this, the patch looks good to me.
> Acked-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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