I sent this email a year ago when the patch was committed but I
never received a response.
regards,
dan carpenter
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 10:34:59AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Konstantin Khlebnikov,
>
> This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings.
>
> The patch 23ba07991dad: "usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit" from
> Nov 7, 2011, leads to the following Smatch complaint:
>
> drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +1077 usbnet_start_xmit()
> error: we previously assumed 'skb' could be null (see line 1060)
>
> drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> 1059
> 1060 if (skb)
> ^^^
> check introduced here.
>
> 1061 skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
> 1062
> 1063 // some devices want funky USB-level framing, for
> 1064 // win32 driver (usually) and/or hardware quirks
> 1065 if (info->tx_fixup) {
> 1066 skb = info->tx_fixup (dev, skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> 1067 if (!skb) {
> 1068 if (netif_msg_tx_err(dev)) {
> 1069 netif_dbg(dev, tx_err,
> dev->net, "can't tx_fixup skb\n");
> 1070 goto drop;
> 1071 } else {
> 1072 /* cdc_ncm collected packet;
> waits for more */
> 1073 goto not_drop;
> 1074 }
> 1075 }
> 1076 }
> 1077 length = skb->len;
> ^^^^^^^^
> dereference without checking.
>
> 1078
> 1079 if (!(urb = usb_alloc_urb (0, GFP_ATOMIC))) {
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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