From: Ian Abbott Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:50:19 +0000 (+0100) Subject: staging: comedi: pcmuio: fix possible NULL deref on detach X-Git-Tag: v3.4.75~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70a9deaa57ee1572c95dce7ec1991bf018728f3a;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git staging: comedi: pcmuio: fix possible NULL deref on detach commit 2fd2bdfccae61efe18f6b92b6a45fbf936d75b48 upstream. pcmuio_detach() is called by the comedi core even if pcmuio_attach() returned an error, so `dev->private` might be `NULL`. Check for that before dereferencing it. Also, as pointed out by Dan Carpenter, there is no need to check the pointer passed to `kfree()` is non-NULL, so remove that check. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott Cc: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c index 661ba2e03892e..6e936c54f1130 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c @@ -464,13 +464,13 @@ static int pcmuio_detach(struct comedi_device *dev) if (dev->iobase) release_region(dev->iobase, ASIC_IOSIZE * thisboard->num_asics); - for (i = 0; i < MAX_ASICS; ++i) { - if (devpriv->asics[i].irq) - free_irq(devpriv->asics[i].irq, dev); - } - - if (devpriv && devpriv->sprivs) + if (devpriv) { + for (i = 0; i < MAX_ASICS; ++i) { + if (devpriv->asics[i].irq) + free_irq(devpriv->asics[i].irq, dev); + } kfree(devpriv->sprivs); + } return 0; }