The patch titled
drivers/media/video: avoid NULL dereference
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drivers-media-video-avoid-null-dereference.patch
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Subject: drivers/media/video: avoid NULL dereference
From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
It seems impossible for ov to be NULL at this point.
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/video/ov511.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 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
@@ -5916,11 +5916,6 @@ ov51x_disconnect(struct usb_interface *i
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
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