Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3c515: Write outside array bounds

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:16:45 +0200

Roel Kluin wrote, On 07/26/2009 12:35 AM:

> if dev_alloc_skb() fails on the first iteration, a write to
> cp->rx_ring[-1] occurs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <[email-masked]>
> ---
> Please review: can we error return like this?

I doubt we can return here: there is a lot of cleaning missing.

Jarek P.

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/3c515.c b/drivers/net/3c515.c
> index 3e00fa8..c84815a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/3c515.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/3c515.c
> @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static int corkscrew_open(struct net_device *dev)
>  			skb = dev_alloc_skb(PKT_BUF_SZ);
>  			vp->rx_skbuff[i] = skb;
>  			if (skb == NULL)
> -				break;	/* Bad news!  */
> +				return -ENOMEM;	/* Bad news!  */
>  			skb->dev = dev;	/* Mark as being used by this device. */
>  			skb_reserve(skb, 2);	/* Align IP on 16 byte boundaries */
>  			vp->rx_ring[i].addr = isa_virt_to_bus(skb->data);
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