Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pktgen: fix null ptr deref in skb allocation

From: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:32:44 -0800

On 16-01-11 02:40 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:38:44 -0800
> 
>> 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 <[email-masked]>
> 
> I don't know how I missed that during review :-/

Well once you get pktgen running fast enough to get allocation
failures the occasional system halts are pretty hard to miss :)

> 
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
>