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[4/4] net: caif: spi: fix potential NULL dereference

Message ID 1290104226-31428-1-git-send-email-segoon@openwall.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Vasiliy Kulikov Nov. 18, 2010, 6:17 p.m. UTC
alloc_netdev() is not checked here for NULL return value.  dev is
check instead.  It might lead to NULL dereference of ndev.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
---
 Compile tested.
 Maybe dev is also must be checked here, but it looks like a trivial typo.

 drivers/net/caif/caif_spi.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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David Miller Nov. 18, 2010, 6:36 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:17:05 +0300

> alloc_netdev() is not checked here for NULL return value.  dev is
> check instead.  It might lead to NULL dereference of ndev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
> ---
>  Compile tested.
>  Maybe dev is also must be checked here, but it looks like a trivial typo.

Definitely looks correct to me, applied, thanks!
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diff --git a/drivers/net/caif/caif_spi.c b/drivers/net/caif/caif_spi.c
index 8b4cea5..20da199 100644
--- a/drivers/net/caif/caif_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/caif/caif_spi.c
@@ -635,8 +635,8 @@  int cfspi_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	ndev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct cfspi),
 			"cfspi%d", cfspi_setup);
-	if (!dev)
-		return -ENODEV;
+	if (!ndev)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	cfspi = netdev_priv(ndev);
 	netif_stop_queue(ndev);