* [PATCH][ISDN][resend] Guard against a potential NULL pointer dereference in old_capi_manufacturer()
@ 2007-06-30 22:59 Jesper Juhl
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From: Jesper Juhl @ 2007-06-30 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Cc: isdn4linux, Carsten Paeth, Kai Germaschewski, Karsten Keil,
Kai Germaschewski, Andrew Morton, Jesper Juhl
(first send: Monday 25 June 2007, resending due to no response)
In drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c::old_capi_manufacturer(), if the call
to get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr); in line 823 returns NULL, then
we'll be dereferencing a NULL pointer in the very next line.
(Found by Coverity checker as bug #402)
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---
drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
index 3ed34f7..3f9e962 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
@@ -821,6 +821,8 @@ static int old_capi_manufacturer(unsigned int cmd, void
__user *data)
return -EFAULT;
}
card = get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr);
+ if (!card)
+ return -EINVAL;
card = capi_ctr_get(card);
if (!card)
return -ESRCH;
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