From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [patch -next] hyperv: NULL dereference on error Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:11:23 +0300 Message-ID: <20140904111123.GD21504@mwanda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Haiyang Zhang Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org We try to call free_netvsc_device(net_device) when "net_device" is NULL. It leads to an Oops. Fixes: f90251c8a6d0 ('hyperv: Increase the buffer length for netvsc_channel_cb()') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c index 5b5644a..977984b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c @@ -1054,10 +1054,8 @@ int netvsc_device_add(struct hv_device *device, void *additional_info) struct net_device *ndev; net_device = alloc_net_device(device); - if (!net_device) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto cleanup; - } + if (!net_device) + return -ENOMEM; net_device->ring_size = ring_size;