Patch "isdn_ppp: Add checks for allocation failure in isdn_ppp_open()" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

isdn_ppp: Add checks for allocation failure in isdn_ppp_open()

to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
isdn_ppp-add-checks-for-allocation-failure-in-isdn_ppp_open.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 16:21:24 +0000
Subject: isdn_ppp: Add checks for allocation failure in isdn_ppp_open()

From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 0baa57d8dc32db78369d8b5176ef56c5e2e18ab3 ]

Compile-tested only.

---
 drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

@@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ isdn_ppp_open(int min, struct file *file
 	is->compflags = 0;
 
 	is->reset = isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc(is);
+	if (!is->reset)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	is->lp = NULL;
 	is->mp_seqno = 0;       /* MP sequence number */

@@ -320,6 +322,10 @@ isdn_ppp_open(int min, struct file *file
 	 * VJ header compression init
 	 */
 	is->slcomp = slhc_init(16, 16);	/* not necessary for 2. link in bundle */
+	if (!is->slcomp) {
+		isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_free(is);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_IPPP_FILTER
 	is->pass_filter = NULL;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.3/ppp-slip-validate-vj-compression-slot-parameters-completely.patch queue-4.3/isdn_ppp-add-checks-for-allocation-failure-in-isdn_ppp_open.patch