The patch titled
ThinkPad ACPI: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
thinkpad-acpi-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference.patch
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Subject: ThinkPad ACPI: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Fix potential NULL pointer dereference if kstrdup failed
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c~thinkpad-acpi-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
--- a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c~thinkpad-acpi-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference
+++ a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -5826,7 +5826,7 @@ static void __init get_thinkpad_model_da
tp->model_str = kstrdup(dmi_get_system_info(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION),
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (strnicmp(tp->model_str, "ThinkPad", 8) != 0) {
+ if (tp->model_str && strnicmp(tp->model_str, "ThinkPad", 8) != 0) {
kfree(tp->model_str);
tp->model_str = NULL;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx are
thinkpad-acpi-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference.patch
git-x86.patch
git-avr32.patch
git-dvb.patch
git-gfs2-nmw.patch
m32r-cleanup-drop-dataidt-section-in-vmlinuxlds-script.patch
nfs-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference-v2.patch
elf-use-ei_nident-instead-of-numeric-value.patch
binfmt-fill_elf_header-cleanup-use-straight-memset-first.patch
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