netdev - [patch] sock.c: potential null dereference

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Message-ID: <20100306110445.GC4958@bicker>
Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:04:45 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] sock.c: potential null dereference

We test that "prot->rsk_prot" is non-null right before we dereference it
on this line.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index fcd397a..fa427b5 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -2276,7 +2276,8 @@ out_free_request_sock_slab:
 		prot->rsk_prot->slab = NULL;
 	}
 out_free_request_sock_slab_name:
-	kfree(prot->rsk_prot->slab_name);
+	if (prot->rsk_prot)
+		kfree(prot->rsk_prot->slab_name);
 out_free_sock_slab:
 	kmem_cache_destroy(prot->slab);
 	prot->slab = NULL;
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