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From: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: null dereference in ethoc_probe()
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:29:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF9C86A.4080400@wytron.com.tw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100522155455.GE22515@bicker>

Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The patch 0baa080c75c: "ethoc: use system memory as buffer" introduced a
> potential null dereference.
> 
>   1060  free:
>   1061          if (priv->dma_alloc)
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	priv can be null here.
> 
>   1062                  dma_free_coherent(NULL, priv->dma_alloc, priv->membase,
>   1063                          netdev->mem_start);
>   1064          free_netdev(netdev);
> 
> Also I think the error handling is not as complete as it should be.  It
> seems like we should call devm_iounmap() and release some of the other
> resources as well.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
> 
> 
Hi Dan,

Thank you for reporting this bug. I will submit patch to fix this mistake.

Best regards,
Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-24  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-22 15:55 null dereference in ethoc_probe() Dan Carpenter
2010-05-24  0:29 ` Thomas Chou [this message]
2010-05-24  2:44 ` [PATCH] ethoc: fix null dereference in ethoc_probe Thomas Chou
2010-05-24  6:11   ` David Miller
2010-05-25  6:16   ` [Nios2-dev] " Tobias Klauser
2010-05-25  6:51     ` Thomas Chou

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