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From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Ringel <stefan.ringel@arcor.de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: fix possible use-before-NULL-check crash
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:39:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006223941.GW14666@outflux.net> (raw)

Found via http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/rules/mini_null_ref.cocci

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-alsa.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-alsa.c b/drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-alsa.c
index 087137d..c1aff0e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-alsa.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/tm6000/tm6000-alsa.c
@@ -426,10 +426,11 @@ error:
 
 static int tm6000_audio_fini(struct tm6000_core *dev)
 {
-	struct snd_tm6000_card	*chip = dev->adev;
+	struct snd_tm6000_card	*chip;
 
 	if (!dev)
 		return 0;
+	chip = dev->adev;
 
 	if (!chip)
 		return 0;
-- 
1.7.1


-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-06 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-06 22:39 Kees Cook [this message]
2010-10-06 22:51 ` [PATCH] staging: fix possible use-before-NULL-check crash Greg KH
2010-10-07  0:12   ` Kees Cook

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