The patch titled drivers/media/video: avoid NULL dereference has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was drivers-media-video-avoid-null-dereference.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/media/video: avoid NULL dereference From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> If ov is NULL, it will not be possible to take the lock in the first place, so move the test up earlier. The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r exists@ expression E, E1; identifier f; statement S1,S3; iterator iter; @@ if ((E == NULL && ...) || ...) { ... when != false ((E == NULL && ...) || ...) when != true ((E != NULL && ...) || ...) when != iter(E,...) S1 when != E = E1 ( sizeof(E->f) | * E->f ) ... when any return ...; } else S3 // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mark McClelland <mmcclell@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/video/ov511.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/media/video/ov511.c~drivers-media-video-avoid-null-dereference drivers/media/video/ov511.c --- a/drivers/media/video/ov511.c~drivers-media-video-avoid-null-dereference +++ a/drivers/media/video/ov511.c @@ -5913,14 +5913,12 @@ ov51x_disconnect(struct usb_interface *i PDEBUG(3, ""); + if (!ov) + return; + mutex_lock(&ov->lock); usb_set_intfdata (intf, NULL); - if (!ov) { - mutex_unlock(&ov->lock); - return; - } - /* Free device number */ ov511_devused &= ~(1 << ov->nr); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-acpi-use-kasprintf.patch drivers-acpi-use-kasprintf-fix.patch arch-x86-pci-use-kasprintf.patch arch-arm-plat-pxa-dmac-correct-null-test.patch arch-powerpc-platforms-pseries-use-kasprintf.patch drivers-media-video-avoid-null-dereference.patch drivers-scsi-libsas-use-sam_good.patch drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test.patch drivers-message-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc.patch drivers-scsi-bfa-bfad_imc-eliminate-useless-code.patch drivers-char-ppdevc-use-kasprintf.patch drivers-edac-introduce-missing-kfree.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html