On Thursday 13 January 2011 21:53:38 Jesper Juhl wrote:
> There's a problem in net/batman-adv/unicast.c::frag_send_skb().
> dev_alloc_skb() allocates memory and may fail, thus returning NULL. If
> this happens we'll pass a NULL pointer on to skb_split() which in turn
> hands it to skb_split_inside_header() from where it gets passed to
> skb_put() that lets skb_tail_pointer() play with it and that function
> dereferences it. And thus the bat dies.
> 
> While I was at it I also moved the call to dev_alloc_skb() above the
> assignment to 'unicast_packet' since there's no reason to do that
> assignment if the memory allocation fails.

Applied

Thanks,
	Sven