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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] tty: handle NULL parameters in free_tty_struct()
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:06:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120720070634.GC11710@elgon.mountain> (raw)

We sometimes pass NULL pointers to free_tty_struct().  One example where
it can happen is in the error handling code in pty_common_install().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index ca7c25d..e49b839 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ struct tty_struct *alloc_tty_struct(void)
 
 void free_tty_struct(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
+	if (!tty)
+		return;
 	if (tty->dev)
 		put_device(tty->dev);
 	kfree(tty->write_buf);

             reply	other threads:[~2012-07-20  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20  7:06 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-07-20  9:48 ` [patch] tty: handle NULL parameters in free_tty_struct() Alan Cox
2012-07-20 21:32   ` Jiri Slaby

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