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authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>2011-02-13 11:15:35 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-13 16:55:45 -0800
commit5b89db0e84bef81f6aa324f8f22a9258ff873de3 (patch)
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Net, USB, Option, hso: Do not dereference NULL pointer
In drivers/net/usb/hso.c::hso_create_bulk_serial_device() we have this code: ... serial = kzalloc(sizeof(*serial), GFP_KERNEL); if (!serial) goto exit; ... exit: hso_free_tiomget(serial); ... hso_free_tiomget() directly dereferences its argument, which in the example above is a NULL pointer, ouch. I could just add a 'if (serial)' test at the 'exit' label, but since most freeing functions in the kernel accept NULL pointers (and it seems like this was also assumed here) I opted to instead change 'hso_free_tiomget()' so that it is safe to call it with a NULL argument. I also modified the function to get rid of a pointles conditional before the call to 'usb_free_urb()' since that function already tests for NULL itself - besides fixing the NULL deref this change also buys us a few bytes in size. Before: $ size drivers/net/usb/hso.o text data bss dec hex filename 32200 592 9960 42752 a700 drivers/net/usb/hso.o After: $ size drivers/net/usb/hso.o text data bss dec hex filename 32196 592 9960 42748 a6fc drivers/net/usb/hso.o Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/hso.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
index bed8fcedff49..6d83812603b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
@@ -2628,15 +2628,15 @@ exit:
static void hso_free_tiomget(struct hso_serial *serial)
{
- struct hso_tiocmget *tiocmget = serial->tiocmget;
+ struct hso_tiocmget *tiocmget;
+ if (!serial)
+ return;
+ tiocmget = serial->tiocmget;
if (tiocmget) {
- if (tiocmget->urb) {
- usb_free_urb(tiocmget->urb);
- tiocmget->urb = NULL;
- }
+ usb_free_urb(tiocmget->urb);
+ tiocmget->urb = NULL;
serial->tiocmget = NULL;
kfree(tiocmget);
-
}
}