[PATCH] usb: core: buffer: avoid NULL pointer dereferrence

chunfeng yun
2016-04-27T01:32:10Z

Hi,

On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 16:11 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:21:05AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 05:08:03PM +0800, Chunfeng Yun wrote:
> > > > NULL pointer dereferrence will happen when class driver
> > > > wants to allocate zero length buffer and pool_max[0]
> > > > can't be used, so skip reserved pool in this case.
> > >
> > > Why would a driver want to allocate a 0 length buffer? What driver does
> > > this?
> > >
> > > Shouldn't we fix that issue instead?
> >
> > And even if a driver does want to allocate a 0-length buffer, shouldn't
> > the function simply return early instead of running through all its
> > calculations?
>
> Yes it should, Chunfeng, can you fix this patch to do that please.
>
Ok, I will fix it later

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h