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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Don't risk NULL deref in marker
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:14:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802260014.24253.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> (raw)


get_marker() may return NULL, so test for it.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/kernel/marker.c b/kernel/marker.c
index 50effc0..f211f08 100644
--- a/kernel/marker.c
+++ b/kernel/marker.c
@@ -698,12 +698,11 @@ int marker_probe_unregister(const char *name,
 {
 	struct marker_entry *entry;
 	struct marker_probe_closure *old;
-	int ret = 0;
+	int ret = -ENOENT;
 
 	mutex_lock(&markers_mutex);
 	entry = get_marker(name);
 	if (!entry) {
-		ret = -ENOENT;
 		goto end;
 	}
 	if (entry->rcu_pending)
@@ -713,12 +712,16 @@ int marker_probe_unregister(const char *name,
 	marker_update_probes();		/* may update entry */
 	mutex_lock(&markers_mutex);
 	entry = get_marker(name);
+	if (!entry) {
+		goto end;
+	}
 	entry->oldptr = old;
 	entry->rcu_pending = 1;
 	/* write rcu_pending before calling the RCU callback */
 	smp_wmb();
 	call_rcu(&entry->rcu, free_old_closure);
 	remove_marker(name);	/* Ignore busy error message */
+	ret = 0;
 end:
 	mutex_unlock(&markers_mutex);
 	return ret;

             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-25 23:14 Jesper Juhl [this message]
2008-02-26  2:59 ` [PATCH] Don't risk NULL deref in marker Mathieu Desnoyers

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