From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753038AbdKVWhR (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:37:17 -0500 Received: from omzsmtpe03.verizonbusiness.com ([199.249.25.208]:10627 "EHLO omzsmtpe03.verizonbusiness.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753206AbdKVW2T (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:28:19 -0500 From: alexander.levin@verizon.com Cc: Colin Ian King , Greg Kroah-Hartman , alexander.levin@verizon.com X-Host: surveyor.tdc.vzwcorp.com To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 07/24] staging: rtl8188eu: avoid a null dereference on pmlmepriv Thread-Topic: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 07/24] staging: rtl8188eu: avoid a null dereference on pmlmepriv Thread-Index: AQHTY+Dmom8peWF32kSp7dcEasJNWA== Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:26:12 +0000 Message-ID: <20171122222604.20122-7-alexander.levin@verizon.com> References: <20171122222604.20122-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> In-Reply-To: <20171122222604.20122-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-messagesentrepresentingtype: 1 x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.144.60.250] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id vAMMbibh026098 From: Colin Ian King [ Upstream commit 123c0aab0050cd0e07ce18e453389fbbb0a5a425 ] There is a check on pmlmepriv before dereferencing it when vfree'ing pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf however the previous call to rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data deferences pmlmepriv causing a null pointer deference if it is null. Avoid this by also calling rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data if the pointer is non-null. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1230262 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 7b464c9fa5cc ("staging: r8188eu: Add files for new driver - part 4") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c index ee2dcd05010f..0b60d1e0333e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c @@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ void rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) void rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) { - rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); - - if (pmlmepriv) + if (pmlmepriv) { + rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf); + } } struct wlan_network *_rtw_alloc_network(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) -- 2.11.0