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* [PATCH] rfkill: Fix check for correct rfkill allocation
@ 2007-05-19 12:08 Ivo van Doorn
  2007-05-19 18:34 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ivo van Doorn @ 2007-05-19 12:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem; +Cc: Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte, Dmitry Torokhov, netdev, akpm

coverity has spotted a bug in rfkill.c (bug id #1627),
in rfkill_allocate() NULL was returns if the kzalloc() works,
and deref the NULL pointer if it fails,

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>

---

diff --git a/net/rfkill/rfkill.c b/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
index a973603..f3986d4 100644
--- a/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
+++ b/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ struct rfkill *rfkill_allocate(struct device *parent, enum rfkill_type type)
 	struct device *dev;
 
 	rfkill = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rfkill), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (rfkill)
+	if (!rfkill)
 		return NULL;
 
 	mutex_init(&rfkill->mutex);

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* Re: [PATCH] rfkill: Fix check for correct rfkill allocation
  2007-05-19 12:08 [PATCH] rfkill: Fix check for correct rfkill allocation Ivo van Doorn
@ 2007-05-19 18:34 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2007-05-19 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ivdoorn; +Cc: snakebyte, dtor, netdev, akpm

From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 14:08:43 +0200

> coverity has spotted a bug in rfkill.c (bug id #1627),
> in rfkill_allocate() NULL was returns if the kzalloc() works,
> and deref the NULL pointer if it fails,
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>

I really wonder how well tested this rfkill code is
if the object allocation is so busted like this :-/

I'll apply your patch, thank you.

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