3.16.65-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 9ccb645683ef46e3c52c12c088a368baa58447d4 upstream.
Currently the null check on key is occurring after the strcasecmp on
the key, hence there is a potential null pointer dereference on key.
Fix this by checking if key is null first. Also replace the == 0
check on strcasecmp with just the ! operator.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1248787 ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: fa766c9be58b ("[media] Altera FPGA firmware download module")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: old code used strnicmp()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c b/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c
index ef83a9078646..d2ed3b9728b7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c
@@ -2176,8 +2176,7 @@ static int altera_get_note(u8 *p, s32 program_size,
key_ptr = &p[note_strings +
get_unaligned_be32(
&p[note_table + (8 * i)])];
- if ((strnicmp(key, key_ptr, strlen(key_ptr)) == 0) &&
- (key != NULL)) {
+ if (key && !strncasecmp(key, key_ptr, strlen(key_ptr))) {
status = 0;
value_ptr = &p[note_strings +
