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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] ptp: oops in ptp_ioctl()
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 09:46:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160526064622.GA6776@mwanda> (raw)

If we pass ERR_PTR(-EFAULT) to kfree() then it's going to oops.

Fixes: 2ece068e1b1d ('ptp: use memdup_user().')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
index 0b1ac6b..d637c93 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ long ptp_ioctl(struct posix_clock *pc, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		sysoff = memdup_user((void __user *)arg, sizeof(*sysoff));
 		if (IS_ERR(sysoff)) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(sysoff);
+			sysoff = NULL;
 			break;
 		}
 		if (sysoff->n_samples > PTP_MAX_SAMPLES) {

             reply	other threads:[~2016-05-26  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-26  6:46 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2016-05-26 17:42 ` [patch] ptp: oops in ptp_ioctl() Richard Cochran
2016-05-30  5:32 ` David Miller

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