linux-kernel - [PATCH][RESEND][ISDN] Guard against a potential NULL pointer dereference in old_capi

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Message-Id: <200708042031.54363.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:31:54 +0200
From:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	isdn4linux@...tserv.isdn4linux.de, Carsten Paeth <calle@...le.de>,
	Kai Germaschewski <kai@...maschewski.name>,
	Karsten Keil <kkeil@...e.de>,
	Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@....de>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH][RESEND][ISDN] Guard against a potential NULL pointer dereference in old_capi_manufacturer()

(first send: Monday 25 June 2007, resending due to no response)
(resending again on August 8'th, 2007)


In drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c::old_capi_manufacturer(), if the call 
to get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr); in line 823 returns NULL, then 
we'll be dereferencing a NULL pointer in the very next line.

(Found by Coverity checker as bug #402)


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

 drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
index 3ed34f7..3f9e962 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
@@ -821,6 +821,8 @@ static int old_capi_manufacturer(unsigned int cmd, void 
__user *data)
 				return -EFAULT;
 		}
 		card = get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr);
+		if (!card)
+			return -EINVAL;
 		card = capi_ctr_get(card);
 		if (!card)
 			return -ESRCH;

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