[PATCH] USB CDC NCM: Don't deref NULL in cdc_ncm_rx_fixup() and don't use uninitialized variable.
From: Jesper Juhl <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-13 21:40:16
skb_clone() dynamically allocates memory and may fail. If it does it
returns NULL. This means we'll dereference a NULL pointer in
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c::cdc_ncm_rx_fixup().
As far as I can tell, the proper way to deal with this is simply to goto
the error label.
Furthermore gcc complains that 'skb' may be used uninitialized:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c: In function ‘cdc_ncm_rx_fixup’:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c:922:18: warning: ‘skb’ may be used uninitialized in this function
and I believe it is right. On the line where we
pr_debug("invalid frame detected (ignored)" ...
we are using the local variable 'skb' but nothing has ever been assigned
to that variable yet. I believe the correct fix for that is to use
'skb_in' instead.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <redacted>
---
cdc_ncm.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
compile tested only.
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
index 593c104..d776c4a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c@@ -1021,13 +1021,15 @@ static int cdc_ncm_rx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb_in) (temp > CDC_NCM_MAX_DATAGRAM_SIZE) || (temp < ETH_HLEN)) { pr_debug("invalid frame detected (ignored)" "offset[%u]=%u, length=%u, skb=%p\n", - x, offset, temp, skb); + x, offset, temp, skb_in); if (!x) goto error; break; } else { skb = skb_clone(skb_in, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!skb) + goto error; skb->len = temp; skb->data = ((u8 *)skb_in->data) + offset; skb_set_tail_pointer(skb, temp);
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