netdev - [PATCH v2] can: add missing socket check in can/raw release

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:57:15 +0200
From:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] can: add missing socket check in can/raw release

v2: added space after 'if' according code style.

We can get here with a NULL socket argument passed from userspace,
so we need to handle it accordingly.

Thanks to Dave Jones pointing at this issue in net/can/bcm.c

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>

---

diff --git a/net/can/raw.c b/net/can/raw.c
index 649acfa..8f215e6 100644
--- a/net/can/raw.c
+++ b/net/can/raw.c
@@ -305,7 +305,12 @@ static int raw_init(struct sock *sk)
 static int raw_release(struct socket *sock)
 {
 	struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
-	struct raw_sock *ro = raw_sk(sk);
+	struct raw_sock *ro;
+
+	if (!sk)
+		return 0;
+
+	ro = raw_sk(sk);

 	unregister_netdevice_notifier(&ro->notifier);

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