irias_new_object() can fail its memory allocation and will return NULL in that case. I believe the proper thing to do is to catch this, free the ias_opt that was allocated earlier but won't be used and then return -ENOMEM. There are assertions further on that check for a NULL ias_obj, but I think it's a lot nicer to simply return -ENOMEM to the caller here where we know a memory allocation failed, rather than hitting an assertion later.
note: I don't have any means of actually testing this, so it has been compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- af_irda.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/irda/af_irda.c b/net/irda/af_irda.c index d5e4dd7..e33f0a5 100644 --- a/net/irda/af_irda.c +++ b/net/irda/af_irda.c @@ -1881,6 +1881,10 @@ static int irda_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, /* Create a new object */ ias_obj = irias_new_object(ias_opt->irda_class_name, jiffies); + if (!ias_obj) { + kfree(ias_opt); + return -ENOMEM; + } } /* Do we have the attribute already ? */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html