linux-kernel - [PATCH] USB Pegasus driver - avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference.

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Date:	Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:19:02 +0200
From:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	Petko Manolov <petkan@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] USB Pegasus driver - avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference.

Hello,

This patch makes sure we don't dereference a NULL pointer in 
drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c::write_bulk_callback() in the initial 
struct net_device *net = pegasus->net; assignment.
The existing code checks if 'pegasus' is NULL and bails out if 
it is, so we better not touch that pointer until after that check.

Please consider merging.


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

 drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
index a05fd97..04cba6b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
@@ -768,11 +768,13 @@ done:
 static void write_bulk_callback(struct urb *urb)
 {
 	pegasus_t *pegasus = urb->context;
-	struct net_device *net = pegasus->net;
+	struct net_device *net;
 
 	if (!pegasus)
 		return;
 
+	net = pegasus->net;
+
 	if (!netif_device_present(net) || !netif_running(net))
 		return;
 

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