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

chunfeng yun
2016-04-11T03:01:45Z

On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 07:07 -0700, 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?
It's misc/usbtest.c
>
> Shouldn't we fix that issue instead?
I don't know which way is better, but it seems simple to fix it up in
buffer.c
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h