From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:58:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c: eliminate a null pointer dereference Message-Id: <1319846297-2985-1-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Larry Finger Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Florian Schilhabel , Greg Kroah-Hartman , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall If ibss_wlan is NULL, it is not correct to memcpy into its field. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @r@ expression E, E1; identifier f; statement S1,S2,S3; @@ if (E = NULL) { ... when != if (E = NULL || ...) S1 else S2 when != E = E1 *E->f ... when any return ...; } else S3 // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- I have no idea whether this is the correct fix. drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c index ef8eb6c..4277d03 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ void r8712_survey_event_callback(struct _adapter *adapter, u8 *pbuf) ibss_wlan = r8712_find_network( &pmlmepriv->scanned_queue, pnetwork->MacAddress); - if (!ibss_wlan) { + if (ibss_wlan) { memcpy(ibss_wlan->network.IEs, pnetwork->IEs, 8); goto exit;