Re: [PATCH 9/11] drivers/platform/x86: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference

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On Thu, 27 May 2010, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:37:00 am Julia Lawall wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Give different error messages if device_enum is NULL or if its type field
> > has the wrong value.
> > 
> > A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
> > follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> > 
> > // <smpl>
> > @r exists@
> > expression E,E1;
> > identifier f;
> > statement S1,S2,S3;
> > @@
> > 
> > if ((E == NULL && ...) || ...)
> > {
> >   ... when != if (...) S1 else S2
> >       when != E = E1
> > * E->f
> >   ... when any
> >   return ...;
> > }
> > else S3
> > // </smpl>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> > This may be too much clutter for little benefit.  Other, perhaps less
> > informative solutions are possible.
> 
> Verbosity should be OK but I think that mixing pr_xxx() and naked printks
> in the same patch is not very nice.

Oops, sorry about that.  I will change it.

julia


> >  drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c |    8 ++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> > b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c index 1387c5f..9db8d2b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> > @@ -1196,8 +1196,12 @@ static void sony_nc_rfkill_setup(struct acpi_device
> > *device) }
> > 
> >  	device_enum = (union acpi_object *) buffer.pointer;
> > -	if (!device_enum || device_enum->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER) {
> > -		printk(KERN_ERR "Invalid SN06 return object 0x%.2x\n",
> > +	if (!device_enum) {
> > +		pr_err("Invalid SN06 return object\n");
> > +		goto out_no_enum;
> > +	}
> > +	if (device_enum->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER) {
> > +		printk(KERN_ERR "Invalid SN06 return object type 0x%.2x\n",
> >  				device_enum->type);
> >  		goto out_no_enum;
> >  	}
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry
> 
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