From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755521AbbAZQGw (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:06:52 -0500 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:19743 "EHLO mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752657AbbAZQGt (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:06:49 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,469,1418079600"; d="scan'208";a="118705554" Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:06:46 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@hadrien To: Julia Lawall cc: Kumar Amit Mehta , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, navin.patidar@gmail.com, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, tapaswenipathak@gmail.com, abelmoyo.ab@gmail.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: core: rtw_wlan_util.c: Fix for NULL dereference In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1422286754-3039-1-git-send-email-gmate.amit@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote: > > > In rtw_check_bcn_info(), check the return value of kzalloc() before > > dereferencing it, to avoid NULL pointer dereference. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta > > --- > > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c | 2 ++ > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c > > index 3e9b6e9..a3ffc69 100644 > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_wlan_util.c > > @@ -931,6 +931,8 @@ int rtw_check_bcn_info(struct adapter *Adapter, u8 *pframe, u32 packet_len) > > } > > > > bssid = kzalloc(sizeof(struct wlan_bssid_ex), GFP_ATOMIC); > > + if (!bssid) > > + return _FAIL; > > I haven't looked at this issue in a while, but shouldn't this be > OBD_ALLOC? Sorry for the noise. I assumed that both patches were for lustre, but this one is not. julia