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From: <jim_baxter@mentor.com>
To: <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>,
	Robert Baldyga <r.baldyga@samsung.com>,
	Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor.com>,
	Mark Craske <Mark_Craske@mentor.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/1] usb: gadget: NCM: NULL pointer dereference in eth_start_xmit
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:25:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1461597903-17788-1-git-send-email-jim_baxter@mentor.com> (raw)

From: Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor.com>

"Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000078" is reported with "PC is at eth_start_xmit+0x19c/0x378 [u_ether]"

The failure scenario is seen when closing the NCM connection while the
TCP/IPv6 stack is still trying to transmit over NCM.

Defensive code is missing from commit
6d3865f9d41f15ddbcecaa6722871fc0db21d7ab
"usb: gadget: NCM: Add transmit multi-frame."


Add check for non-NULL dev->port_usb before accessing
dev->port_usb->supports_multi_frame.

Signed-off-by: Mark Craske <Mark_Craske@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor.com>

---
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
index 637809e..68f0b7b 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
@@ -556,7 +556,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t eth_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			/* Multi frame CDC protocols may store the frame for
 			 * later which is not a dropped frame.
 			 */
-			if (dev->port_usb->supports_multi_frame)
+			if (dev->port_usb &&
+			    dev->port_usb->supports_multi_frame)
 				goto multiframe;
 			goto drop;
 		}
-- 
1.9.1

             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-25 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-25 15:25 jim_baxter [this message]
2016-04-25 16:51 ` One Thousand Gnomes

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