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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Ringel <stefan.ringel@arcor.de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fix possible use-before-NULL-check crash
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:51:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006225104.GA21013@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101006223941.GW14666@outflux.net>

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 03:39:41PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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;

Nice catch, but I don't think that the dev pointer can ever be NULL
here.

Mauro, can you queue this up through your tree, as you handle this one?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-06 22:51 UTC|newest]

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

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