netdev - Re: usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start

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Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:52:30 -0700
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	khlebnikov@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit

I sent this email a year ago when the patch was committed but I
never received a response.

regards,
dan carpenter

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 10:34:59AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Konstantin Khlebnikov,
> 
> This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings.
> 
> The patch 23ba07991dad: "usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit" from 
> Nov 7, 2011, leads to the following Smatch complaint:
> 
> drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +1077 usbnet_start_xmit()
> 	 error: we previously assumed 'skb' could be null (see line 1060)
> 
> drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
>   1059	
>   1060		if (skb)
>                     ^^^
> check introduced here.
> 
>   1061			skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
>   1062	
>   1063		// some devices want funky USB-level framing, for
>   1064		// win32 driver (usually) and/or hardware quirks
>   1065		if (info->tx_fixup) {
>   1066			skb = info->tx_fixup (dev, skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
>   1067			if (!skb) {
>   1068				if (netif_msg_tx_err(dev)) {
>   1069					netif_dbg(dev, tx_err, dev->net, "can't tx_fixup skb\n");
>   1070					goto drop;
>   1071				} else {
>   1072					/* cdc_ncm collected packet; waits for more */
>   1073					goto not_drop;
>   1074				}
>   1075			}
>   1076		}
>   1077		length = skb->len;
>                          ^^^^^^^^
> dereference without checking.
> 
>   1078	
>   1079		if (!(urb = usb_alloc_urb (0, GFP_ATOMIC))) {
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
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