linux-kernel - [PATCH] PCI: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference in pci_scan

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:14:33 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: [PATCH] PCI: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference in
 pci_scan_bridge

pci_add_new_bus() calls pci_alloc_child_bus() which calls pci_alloc_bus() 
that allocates memory dynamically with kzalloc(). The return value of 
kzalloc() is the pointer that's eventually returned from 
pci_add_new_bus(), so since kzalloc() can fail and return NULL so can 
pci_add_new_bus(). Thus we may end up dereferencing a NULL pointer in 
drivers/pci/probe.c::pci_scan_bridge(). Seems to me we should test for 
this and bail out if it happens rather than crashing.
Also removed some trailing whitespace that bugged me while looking at 
this.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 probe.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

  compile tested

diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
index c84900d..44cbbba 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
@@ -764,6 +764,8 @@ int __devinit pci_scan_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus, struct pci_dev *dev, int max,
 		if (pci_find_bus(pci_domain_nr(bus), max+1))
 			goto out;
 		child = pci_add_new_bus(bus, dev, ++max);
+		if (!child)
+			goto out;
 		buses = (buses & 0xff000000)
 		      | ((unsigned int)(child->primary)     <<  0)
 		      | ((unsigned int)(child->secondary)   <<  8)
@@ -777,7 +779,7 @@ int __devinit pci_scan_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus, struct pci_dev *dev, int max,
 			buses &= ~0xff000000;
 			buses |= CARDBUS_LATENCY_TIMER << 24;
 		}
-			
+
 		/*
 		 * We need to blast all three values with a single write.
 		 */


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