netdev - [patch] ptp: oops in ptp

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Date:	Thu, 26 May 2016 09:46:22 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] ptp: oops in ptp_ioctl()

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@...cle.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) {