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From: yan <clouds.yan@gmail.com>
To: greg <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, message <message.get@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4][Trivial] lib/kobject.c : check parameter in kobject_init_and_add
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:17:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335003475.2188.43.camel@yan> (raw)

If user turns to the simple interface kobject_init_and_add 
and gives a null kobject, kobject_init can detect it but 
just dumps the stack. Then there is:
  -->kobject_add_varg
   -->kobject_set_name_vargs
In the end, it will reference kobj->name and we have an oops.

Check whether we have a valid kobject in kobject_init_and_add.

Signed-off-by: Yan Hong <clouds.yan@gmail.com>
---
 lib/kobject.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index dd67855..bc05922 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -380,6 +380,9 @@ int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype,
 	va_list args;
 	int retval;
 
+	if (!kobj)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	kobject_init(kobj, ktype);
 
 	va_start(args, fmt);
-- 
1.7.5.1




             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-21 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-21 10:17 yan [this message]
2012-04-23 20:41 ` [PATCH 4/4][Trivial] lib/kobject.c : check parameter in kobject_init_and_add greg

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