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author | Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> | 2011-01-17 13:24:57 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-01-19 03:13:49 +0300 |
commit | 1956cc52e73984a39252994f0beee458fc0d8909 (patch) | |
tree | aac01b12ee07ed2f5dd03ffdd77daee08ef85461 /drivers/sfi | |
parent | 2fdc1c8093255f9da877d7b9ce3f46c2098377dc (diff) | |
download | linux-1956cc52e73984a39252994f0beee458fc0d8909.tar.xz |
ns83820: Avoid bad pointer deref in ns83820_init_one().
In drivers/net/ns83820.c::ns83820_init_one() we dynamically allocate
memory via alloc_etherdev(). We then call PRIV() on the returned storage
which is 'return netdev_priv()'. netdev_priv() takes the pointer it is
passed and adds 'ALIGN(sizeof(struct net_device), NETDEV_ALIGN)' to it and
returns it. Then we test the resulting pointer for NULL, which it is
unlikely to be at this point, and later dereference it. This will go bad
if alloc_etherdev() actually returned NULL.
This patch reworks the code slightly so that we test for a NULL pointer
(and return -ENOMEM) directly after calling alloc_etherdev().
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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