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* [PATCH] ISDN cmx: Avoid potential NULL deref in dsp_cmx_send_member() and shrink code size.
@ 2010-12-18 22:33 Jesper Juhl
  2010-12-31 19:19 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Juhl @ 2010-12-18 22:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Karsten Keil
  Cc: David S. Miller, Julia Lawall, Tejun Heo, netdev, linux-kernel,
	Andreas Eversberg

Hi there,

In drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c::dsp_cmx_send_member() we currently have 
this code:

           if (dsp->conf && dsp->conf->software && dsp->conf->hardware)
                   tx_data_only = 1;
           if (dsp->conf->software && dsp->echo.hardware)
                   tx_data_only = 1;

The first line implies that 'dsp->conf' may be NULL. If it is, then the 
third line will dereference a NULL pointer.

This patch reworks the code so that we avoid the potential NULL deref.
It also has the added benefit that the object file size shrinks a bit.

before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  18840     112    5784   24736    60a0 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.o
after:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  18816     112    5776   24704    6080 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.o


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
 dsp_cmx.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

 compile tested only

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c
index 76d9e67..f76f595 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c
@@ -1326,10 +1326,9 @@ dsp_cmx_send_member(struct dsp *dsp, int len, s32 *c, int members)
 			dsp->last_tx = 0;
 			return;
 		}
-		if (dsp->conf && dsp->conf->software && dsp->conf->hardware)
-			tx_data_only = 1;
-		if (dsp->conf->software && dsp->echo.hardware)
-			tx_data_only = 1;
+		if (dsp->conf && dsp->conf->software)
+			if (dsp->conf->hardware || dsp->echo.hardware)
+				tx_data_only = 1;
 	}
 
 #ifdef CMX_DEBUG



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* Re: [PATCH] ISDN cmx: Avoid potential NULL deref in dsp_cmx_send_member() and shrink code size.
  2010-12-18 22:33 [PATCH] ISDN cmx: Avoid potential NULL deref in dsp_cmx_send_member() and shrink code size Jesper Juhl
@ 2010-12-31 19:19 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2010-12-31 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jj; +Cc: isdn, julia, tj, netdev, linux-kernel, jolly

From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:33:40 +0100 (CET)

> Hi there,
> 
> In drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c::dsp_cmx_send_member() we currently have 
> this code:
> 
>            if (dsp->conf && dsp->conf->software && dsp->conf->hardware)
>                    tx_data_only = 1;
>            if (dsp->conf->software && dsp->echo.hardware)
>                    tx_data_only = 1;
> 
> The first line implies that 'dsp->conf' may be NULL. If it is, then the 
> third line will dereference a NULL pointer.
> 
> This patch reworks the code so that we avoid the potential NULL deref.
> It also has the added benefit that the object file size shrinks a bit.
> 
> before:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   18840     112    5784   24736    60a0 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.o
> after:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   18816     112    5776   24704    6080 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.o
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>

Applied.

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