From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] drivers/usb/media/vicam.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:25:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060310222506.GA21864@stusta.de> (raw)
This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference spotted by the Coverity
checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
--- linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm3-full/drivers/usb/media/vicam.c.old 2006-03-10 20:54:17.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm3-full/drivers/usb/media/vicam.c 2006-03-10 20:54:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -758,18 +758,19 @@ vicam_open(struct inode *inode, struct f
{
struct video_device *dev = video_devdata(file);
struct vicam_camera *cam =
(struct vicam_camera *) dev->priv;
DBG("open\n");
if (!cam) {
printk(KERN_ERR
"vicam video_device improperly initialized");
+ return -EINVAL;
}
/* the videodev_lock held above us protects us from
* simultaneous opens...for now. we probably shouldn't
* rely on this fact forever.
*/
if (cam->open_count > 0) {
printk(KERN_INFO
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