[PATCH] [media] mceusb: fix NULL-deref at probe

* [PATCH] [media] mceusb: fix NULL-deref at probe
@ 2017-03-07 18:14 Johan Hovold
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2017-03-07 18:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
  Cc: Jarod Wilson, linux-media, linux-usb, linux-kernel, stable, Johan Hovold

Make sure to check for the required out endpoint to avoid dereferencing
a NULL-pointer in mce_request_packet should a malicious device lack such
an endpoint. Note that this path it hit during probe.

Fixes: 66e89522aff7 ("V4L/DVB: IR: add mceusb IR receiver driver")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# 2.6.36
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---

Found through inspection, compile tested only.

Johan


 drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c b/drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c
index 238d8eaf7d94..93b16fe3ab38 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c
@@ -1288,8 +1288,8 @@ static int mceusb_dev_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	if (ep_in == NULL) {
-		dev_dbg(&intf->dev, "inbound and/or endpoint not found");
+	if (!ep_in || !ep_out) {
+		dev_dbg(&intf->dev, "required endpoints not found\n");
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-- 
2.12.0

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