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ns83820: Avoid bad pointer deref in ns83820_init_one().

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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().

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jesper Juhl 2011-01-17 10:24:57 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 2fdc1c8093
commit 1956cc52e7
1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -1988,12 +1988,11 @@ static int __devinit ns83820_init_one(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
}
ndev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct ns83820));
dev = PRIV(ndev);
err = -ENOMEM;
if (!dev)
if (!ndev)
goto out;
dev = PRIV(ndev);
dev->ndev = ndev;
spin_lock_init(&dev->rx_info.lock);