From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:11:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] usb: core: buffer: avoid NULL pointer dereferrence In-Reply-To: References: <20160408140701.GA3547@kroah.com> Message-ID: <20160426231115.GB23273@kroah.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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. thanks, greg k-h