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SubjectRe: [PATCH] USB Pegasus driver - avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference.
Hi,

On 7/29/07, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This patch makes sure we don't dereference a NULL pointer in
> drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c::write_bulk_callback() in the initial
> struct net_device *net = pegasus->net; assignment.
> The existing code checks if 'pegasus' is NULL and bails out if
> it is, so we better not touch that pointer until after that check.
> [...]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
> index a05fd97..04cba6b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
> @@ -768,11 +768,13 @@ done:
> static void write_bulk_callback(struct urb *urb)
> {
> pegasus_t *pegasus = urb->context;
> - struct net_device *net = pegasus->net;
> + struct net_device *net;
>
> if (!pegasus)
> return;
>
> + net = pegasus->net;
> +
> if (!netif_device_present(net) || !netif_running(net))
> return;

Is it really possible that we're called into this function with
urb->context == NULL? If not, I'd suggest let's just get rid of
the check itself, instead.

Satyam
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