linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] USB: serial/kobil_sct, fix potential tty NULL dereference

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Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:34:06 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	gregkh@...e.de
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jirislaby@...il.com, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] USB: serial/kobil_sct, fix potential tty NULL dereference

Make sure that we check the return value of tty_port_tty_get.
Sometimes it may return NULL and we later dereference that.

The only place here is in kobil_read_int_callback, so fix it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc: stable@...nel.org
---
 drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c b/drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c
index bd5bd85..b382d9a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void kobil_read_int_callback(struct urb *urb)
 	}
 
 	tty = tty_port_tty_get(&port->port);
-	if (urb->actual_length) {
+	if (tty && urb->actual_length) {
 
 		/* BEGIN DEBUG */
 		/*
-- 
1.7.4.1


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