diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index fe9b32b6a6fb..96ada314ba65 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ba6d14aff4112b9518856d2d3979a386cb3a2945
+refs/heads/master: f6e2cdc8aa395ea813603bfd81b70b5c461a8ebf
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c b/trunk/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
index 175199088bf4..26e46720fc1c 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
@@ -2536,6 +2536,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *isdn_ppp_decompress(struct sk_buff *skb,struct ippp_struc
   		rsparm.maxdlen = IPPP_RESET_MAXDATABYTES;
   
   		skb_out = dev_alloc_skb(is->mru + PPP_HDRLEN);
+  		if (!skb_out) {
+  			kfree_skb(skb);
+  			printk(KERN_ERR "ippp: decomp memory allocation failure\n");
+			return NULL;
+  		}
 		len = ipc->decompress(stat, skb, skb_out, &rsparm);
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		if (len <= 0) {