Re: [PATCH-3.11.y] staging: comedi: pcmuio: fix possible NULL deref on detach

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 01:18:10PM +0000, Ian Abbott wrote:
> follow 2fd2bdfccae61efe18f6b92b6a45fbf936d75b48
> 

Thank you Ian, I'll queue this patch for the 3.11 kernel.

Cheers,
--
Luis

> pcmuio_detach() is called by the comedi core even if pcmuio_attach()
> returned an error, so `dev->private` might be `NULL`.  Check for that
> before dereferencing it.
> 
> Also, as pointed out by Dan Carpenter, there is no need to check the
> pointer passed to `kfree()` is non-NULL, so remove that check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Applies to 3.11.y only (e.g. Debian jessie/testing).
> ---
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c | 11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c
> index c43b633..7211c6b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c
> @@ -680,12 +680,13 @@ static void pcmuio_detach(struct comedi_device *dev)
>  	struct pcmuio_private *devpriv = dev->private;
>  	int i;
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < PCMUIO_MAX_ASICS; ++i) {
> -		if (devpriv->asics[i].irq)
> -			free_irq(devpriv->asics[i].irq, dev);
> -	}
> -	if (devpriv && devpriv->sprivs)
> +	if (devpriv) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < PCMUIO_MAX_ASICS; ++i) {
> +			if (devpriv->asics[i].irq)
> +				free_irq(devpriv->asics[i].irq, dev);
> +		}
>  		kfree(devpriv->sprivs);
> +	}
>  	comedi_legacy_detach(dev);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.4.4
> 
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