From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:04:45 +0000 Subject: [patch] sock.c: potential null dereference Message-Id: <20100306110445.GC4958@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Eric Dumazet , Jan Engelhardt , Ingo Molnar , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org We test that "prot->rsk_prot" is non-null right before we dereference it on this line. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index fcd397a..fa427b5 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -2276,7 +2276,8 @@ out_free_request_sock_slab: prot->rsk_prot->slab = NULL; } out_free_request_sock_slab_name: - kfree(prot->rsk_prot->slab_name); + if (prot->rsk_prot) + kfree(prot->rsk_prot->slab_name); out_free_sock_slab: kmem_cache_destroy(prot->slab); prot->slab = NULL;