Re: [PATCH 4/4] tty: n_gsm: fix missing corner cases in gsmld_poll()

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Thu Jul 07 2022 - 03:34:19 EST


On 07. 07. 22, 9:00, Starke, Daniel wrote:
@@ -3051,14 +3051,20 @@ static __poll_t gsmld_poll(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
__poll_t mask = 0;
struct gsm_mux *gsm = tty->disc_data;
+ if (!gsm)
+ return EPOLLHUP;

Hmm, how can this happen? It's a tty bug if it calls ld ops after NULLing
disc_data.

I can remove this check if it is redundant. Should I?

Sure as it makes little sense anyway. Even if gsm was non-NULL here, the backing disc_data would be freed on the accesses further.

thanks,
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js
suse labs