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SubjectRe: [PATCH][isapnp] Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in isapnp_read_tag()
On 03/07/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 01:38:31 +0200
> Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Coverity checker spotted (as bug #809) that we dereference 'type'
> > long before we actually test it against NULL in
> > drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c::isapnp_read_tag() - both branches of the
> > 'if (tag & 0x80)' dereference type, and since this 'if' is before the test
> > against NULL and the return of -1, this will blow up is ever type is NULL.
> > This is easy to fix by simply moving the NULL test to the beginning of
> > the function.
> >
[snip]
>
> dood, look at the callers. NULL is not possible here.
>
You are right, there's absolutely no way that we could get a NULL
pointer there - that was sloppy of me :-(

I guess we should just get rid of the check completely. I'll cook up
a patch for that tomorrow.

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