linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in usbat_check_status() in drivers/usb/storage/shuttle

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Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:06:30 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@...aau.dk>
Cc:	Micah Gruber <micah.gruber@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in
	usbat_check_status()  in drivers/usb/storage/shuttle_usbat.c

On Tue, Sep 04 2007, Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote:
> tir, 04 09 2007 kl. 13:06 +0200, skrev Jens Axboe:
> > On Tue, Sep 04 2007, Micah Gruber wrote:
> > > This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference us before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing after the null check.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber <micah.gruber@...il.com>
> > 
> > Be careful with stuff like that, if you actually look at the code, a us
> > == NULL doesn't seem to be possible (or usbat_flash_transport() would
> > have oopsed before).
> > 
> If that is true, then
>         if (!us)
>                 return USB_STOR_TRANSPORT_ERROR;
> is utterly pointless.

Well that was the point I was trying to make, that test and return
should be deleted instead.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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