linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] isdn/gigaset: avoid cs->dev null pointer dereference

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Date:	Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:03:26 +0100
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@....de>,
	Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Karsten Keil <kkeil@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isdn/gigaset: avoid cs->dev null pointer dereference

[Argh. Kaum ist man mal ein paar Tage weg ...]

Am 28.10.2006 20:45 schrieb Akinobu Mita:
> --- work-fault-inject.orig/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> +++ work-fault-inject/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static struct bc_state *gigaset_initbcs(
>  	} else if ((bcs->skb = dev_alloc_skb(SBUFSIZE + HW_HDR_LEN)) != NULL)
>  		skb_reserve(bcs->skb, HW_HDR_LEN);
>  	else {
> -		dev_warn(cs->dev, "could not allocate skb\n");
> +		gig_dbg(DEBUG_INIT, "could not allocate skb\n");
>  		bcs->inputstate |= INS_skip_frame;
>  	}

I'm not quite happy with that patch. (Nor, for that matter, with the
speed it was pushed into mainline, without waiting even a few days
for comments from the maintainers of the code in question.)
Not being able to allocate that skb seriously impairs functionality
of the driver. It should be reported on production systems too, not
just on debug builds.

In short: NAK. Please revert, and replace by the following:

From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>

Avoid usage of uninitialized cs->dev in gigaset_initbcs().

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
Cc: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@....de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@...e.de>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@....de>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
---

 drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ static struct bc_state *gigaset_initbcs(
 	} else if ((bcs->skb = dev_alloc_skb(SBUFSIZE + HW_HDR_LEN)) != NULL)
 		skb_reserve(bcs->skb, HW_HDR_LEN);
 	else {
-		dev_warn(cs->dev, "could not allocate skb\n");
+		warn("could not allocate skb");
 		bcs->inputstate |= INS_skip_frame;
 	}


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