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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Phillips <mikep@linuxtr.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-tr@linuxtr.net,
	davem@davemloft.net, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6][RESEND] Avoid possible NULL pointer deref in 3c359 driver
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:22:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708130022.53998.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708130016.11281.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

(Resending old patch originally submitted at 1/7-2007 02:19, 04-Aug-2007 20:31)

In xl_freemem(), if dev_if is NULL, the line
  struct xl_private *xl_priv =(struct xl_private *)dev->priv;
will cause a NULL pointer dereference. However, if we move
that assignment below the 'if' statement that tests for a NULL
'dev', then that NULL deref can never happen.
It never hurts to be safe :-)


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c b/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c
index e22a3f5..671f4da 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c
@@ -1044,15 +1044,17 @@ static void xl_freemem(struct net_device *dev)
 static irqreturn_t xl_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id) 
 {
 	struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *)dev_id;
- 	struct xl_private *xl_priv =(struct xl_private *)dev->priv;
-	u8 __iomem * xl_mmio = xl_priv->xl_mmio ; 
-	u16 intstatus, macstatus  ;
+ 	struct xl_private *xl_priv;
+	u8 __iomem * xl_mmio; 
+	u16 intstatus, macstatus;
 
 	if (!dev) { 
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "Device structure dead, aaahhhh !\n") ;
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "3c359: Device structure dead, aaahhhh!\n");
 		return IRQ_NONE; 
 	}
 
+	xl_priv = (struct xl_private *)dev->priv;
+	xl_mmio = xl_priv->xl_mmio;
 	intstatus = readw(xl_mmio + MMIO_INTSTATUS) ;  
 
 	if (!(intstatus & 1)) /* We didn't generate the interrupt */




           reply	other threads:[~2007-08-12 22:25 UTC|newest]

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