Re: [PATCH] ns83820: Avoid bad pointer deref in ns83820_init_one().

[David Miller]

From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:42:00 -0500

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:24:57PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>> In drivers/net/ns83820.c::ns83820_init_one() we dynamically allocate 
>> memory via alloc_etherdev(). We then call PRIV() on the returned storage 
>> which is 'return netdev_priv()'. netdev_priv() takes the pointer it is 
>> passed and adds 'ALIGN(sizeof(struct net_device), NETDEV_ALIGN)' to it and 
>> returns it. Then we test the resulting pointer for NULL, which it is 
>> unlikely to be at this point, and later dereference it. This will go bad 
>> if alloc_etherdev() actually returned NULL.
>> 
>> This patch reworks the code slightly so that we test for a NULL pointer 
>> (and return -ENOMEM) directly after calling alloc_etherdev().
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> 		-ben
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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