Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2014-08-02
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[patch] dm9000: NULL dereferences on error in probe()

From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-01 08:24:50
Also in: kernel-janitors
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

The dm9000_release_board() function is called with NULL ->data_req and
->addr_req pointers if dm9000_probe() fails.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
---
Old bug, but not serious.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
index 13723c9..23084fb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
@@ -817,10 +817,12 @@ dm9000_release_board(struct platform_device *pdev, struct board_info *db)
 
 	/* release the resources */
 
-	release_resource(db->data_req);
+	if (db->data_req)
+		release_resource(db->data_req);
 	kfree(db->data_req);
 
-	release_resource(db->addr_req);
+	if (db->addr_req)
+		release_resource(db->addr_req);
 	kfree(db->addr_req);
 }
 
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