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Message-ID: <20080512193754.70c65c5d@vitb-lp>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:37:54 +0400
From: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@...mvista.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc: pantelis.antoniou@...il.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] drivers/net/fs_enet: remove null pointer
dereference
On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:38:26 +0200 (CEST)
Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Acked-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@...nel.crashing.org>
>
> The following code appears in the function fs_init_instance in the
> file drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c.
>
> if (fep->ops == NULL) {
> printk(KERN_ERR DRV_MODULE_NAME
> ": %s No matching ops found (%d).\n",
> ndev->name, fpi->fs_no);
> err = -EINVAL;
> goto err;
> }
>
> This code implies that at the point of err, fep->ops can be NULL, so
> an extra test is needed before dereferencing this value.
>
>
> This problem was found using the following semantic match
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression E, E1;
> identifier f;
> statement S1,S2,S3;
> @@
>
> * if (E == NULL)
> {
> ... when != if (E == NULL) S1 else S2
> when != E = E1
> * E->f
> ... when any
> return ...;
> }
> else S3
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
>
> ---
>
> diff -u -p a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c ---
> a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c 2008-04-27
> 11:41:11.000000000 +0200 +++
> b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c 2008-05-12
> 09:41:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ err: if (registered)
> unregister_netdev(ndev);
> - if (fep != NULL) {
> + if (fep && fep->ops) {
> (*fep->ops->free_bd)(ndev);
> (*fep->ops->cleanup_data)(ndev);
> }
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