From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Haboustak <mike-@cinci.rr.com>, Andreas Gal <gal@uci.edu>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH][hid] Fix a NULL pointer dereference when we fail to allocate memory
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:06:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707220006.20359.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
If, in usb_hid_configure(), we fail to allocate storage for 'usbhid',
"if (!(usbhid = kzalloc(sizeof(struct usbhid_device), GFP_KERNEL)))",
then we'll jump to the 'fail:' label where we have this code:
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbin);
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbout);
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbctrl);
Since we got here because we couldn't allocate storage for 'usbhid',
what we have here is a NULL pointer dereference - ouch...
This patch solves that little problem by adding a new
'fail_no_usbhid:' label after the problematic calls to
usb_free_urb() and jumps to that one instead, in the problem case.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
index b2baeae..3ff7468 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ static struct hid_device *usb_hid_configure(struct usb_interface *intf)
hid->quirks = quirks;
if (!(usbhid = kzalloc(sizeof(struct usbhid_device), GFP_KERNEL)))
- goto fail;
+ goto fail_no_usbhid;
hid->driver_data = usbhid;
usbhid->hid = hid;
@@ -877,6 +877,7 @@ fail:
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbin);
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbout);
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbctrl);
+fail_no_usbhid:
hid_free_buffers(dev, hid);
hid_free_device(hid);
next reply other threads:[~2007-07-21 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-21 22:06 Jesper Juhl [this message]
2007-07-22 5:47 ` [PATCH][hid] Fix a NULL pointer dereference when we fail to allocate memory Jiri Slaby
2007-07-30 13:56 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-30 14:04 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-30 13:19 ` Jiri Kosina
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