skb_clone() dynamically allocates memory and may fail. If it does it
returns NULL. This means we'll dereference a NULL pointer in
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c::cdc_ncm_rx_fixup().
As far as I can tell, the proper way to deal with this is simply to goto
the error label.
Furthermore gcc complains that 'skb' may be used uninitialized:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c: In function ʽcdc_ncm_rx_fixupʼ:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c:922:18: warning: ʽskbʼ may be used uninitialized in this function
and I believe it is right. On the line where we
pr_debug("invalid frame detected (ignored)" ...
we are using the local variable 'skb' but nothing has ever been assigned
to that variable yet. I believe the correct fix for that is to use
'skb_in' instead.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
cdc_ncm.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
compile tested only.
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
index 593c104..d776c4a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
@@ -1021,13 +1021,15 @@ static int cdc_ncm_rx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb_in)
(temp > CDC_NCM_MAX_DATAGRAM_SIZE) || (temp < ETH_HLEN)) {
pr_debug("invalid frame detected (ignored)"
"offset[%u]=%u, length=%u, skb=%p\n",
- x, offset, temp, skb);
+ x, offset, temp, skb_in);
if (!x)
goto error;
break;
} else {
skb = skb_clone(skb_in, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!skb)
+ goto error;
skb->len = temp;
skb->data = ((u8 *)skb_in->data) + offset;
skb_set_tail_pointer(skb, temp);
--
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