From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:31:19 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [AX25] ax25_out: check skb for NULL in ax25_kick()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc3~9^2~53
X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f47b7257c7368698eabff6fd7b340071932af640

[AX25] ax25_out: check skb for NULL in ax25_kick()

According to some OOPS reports ax25_kick tries to clone NULL skbs
sometimes. It looks like a race with ax25_clear_queues(). Probably
there is no need to add more than a simple check for this yet.
Another report suggested there are probably also cases where ax25
->paclen == 0 can happen in ax25_output(); this wasn't confirmed
during testing but let's leave this debugging check for some time.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jann Traschewski <jann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/ax25/ax25_out.c b/net/ax25/ax25_out.c
index 92b517a..bf706f8 100644
--- a/net/ax25/ax25_out.c
+++ b/net/ax25/ax25_out.c
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ void ax25_output(ax25_cb *ax25, int paclen, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	unsigned char *p;
 	int frontlen, len, fragno, ka9qfrag, first = 1;
 
+	if (paclen < 16) {
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if ((skb->len - 1) > paclen) {
 		if (*skb->data == AX25_P_TEXT) {
 			skb_pull(skb, 1); /* skip PID */
@@ -251,8 +257,6 @@ void ax25_kick(ax25_cb *ax25)
 	if (start == end)
 		return;
 
-	ax25->vs = start;
-
 	/*
 	 * Transmit data until either we're out of data to send or
 	 * the window is full. Send a poll on the final I frame if
@@ -261,8 +265,13 @@ void ax25_kick(ax25_cb *ax25)
 
 	/*
 	 * Dequeue the frame and copy it.
+	 * Check for race with ax25_clear_queues().
 	 */
 	skb  = skb_dequeue(&ax25->write_queue);
+	if (!skb)
+		return;
+
+	ax25->vs = start;
 
 	do {
 		if ((skbn = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)) == NULL) {