This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: comedi: ni_labpc: fix possible NULL deref during detach
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 922b67c1ac53014d80649a961a2fde700cd065d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:25:21 +0100
Subject: staging: comedi: ni_labpc: fix possible NULL deref during detach
`labpc_common_detach()` is called by the comedi core to clean up if
either `labpc_attach()` (including the one in the "ni_labpc_cs" module)
or `labpc_attach_pci()` returns an error. It assumes the `thisboard`
macro (expanding to `((struct labpc_board_struct *)dev->board_ptr)`) is
non-null. This is a valid assumption if `labpc_attach()` fails, but not
if `labpc_attach_pci()` fails, leading to a possible NULL pointer
dereference.
Check `thisboard` at the top of `labpc_common_detach()` and return early
if it is `NULL`. This is okay because the only other thing that could
have been allocated is `dev->private` and that is freed by the comedi
core, not by this function.
Cc: <[email protected]> # 3.6.x
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_labpc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_labpc.c
b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_labpc.c
index 28b91a6..b5a19a0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_labpc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_labpc.c
@@ -772,6 +772,8 @@ void labpc_common_detach(struct comedi_device *dev)
{
struct comedi_subdevice *s;
+ if (!thisboard)
+ return;
if (dev->subdevices) {
s = &dev->subdevices[2];
subdev_8255_cleanup(dev, s);
--
1.7.12.2.421.g261b511
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