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authorSebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>2014-10-08 11:43:10 +0200
committerGedare Bloom <gedare@rtems.org>2014-11-22 09:32:12 -0500
commit797e9a8c7a52cd8f25c79328a35d5f364eda4838 (patch)
treebfedfaa621251ca6cfd27cf7db8ffb6c0eccd304
parentcapture: back-port conversion from task_name to task_id (closes #1361) (diff)
downloadrtems-797e9a8c7a52cd8f25c79328a35d5f364eda4838.tar.bz2
ppp: PR1943: Avoid NULL pointer access
Waiting for mbufs at this level is a bad solution. It would be better to try to allocate a new mbuf chain before we hand over the current mbuf chain to the upper layer. In case the allocation fails we should drop the current packet and use its mbuf chain for a new packet.
-rw-r--r--cpukit/libnetworking/net/ppp_tty.c10
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/cpukit/libnetworking/net/ppp_tty.c b/cpukit/libnetworking/net/ppp_tty.c
index 94d0a69552..0aa2c279ae 100644
--- a/cpukit/libnetworking/net/ppp_tty.c
+++ b/cpukit/libnetworking/net/ppp_tty.c
@@ -704,14 +704,8 @@ pppallocmbuf(struct ppp_softc *sc, struct mbuf **mp)
m = *mp;
if ( m == NULL ) {
/* get mbuf header */
- MGETHDR(m, M_DONTWAIT, MT_DATA);
- if ( m == NULL ) {
- /* error - set condition to break out */
- printf("pppallocmbuf: MGETHDR failed\n");
- break;
- }
- MCLGET(m, M_DONTWAIT);
- m->m_next = NULL;
+ MGETHDR(m, M_WAIT, MT_DATA);
+ MCLGET(m, M_WAIT);
*mp = m;
}