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* [PATCH v3] staging: ks7010_sdio: fix NULL pointer dereference and memory leak
@ 2018-04-12 16:23 Gustavo A. R. Silva
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From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2018-04-12 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Dan Carpenter
  Cc: devel, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva

priv is being explicitly dereferenced when it is still null, when
jumping to goto label err_free_netdev, before it is properly
updated with a valid memory address.

Also, when this happens, memory allocated for netdev at line 854:
netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*priv)) is not being free'd before
return, hence there is a memory leak.

The current code looks a bit too complicated and can be replaced
by just directly freeing netdev before return.

Notice that card->priv = NULL isn't required because the next thing
we do to card is kfree(card).

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1467844 ("Explicit null dereferenced")
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
Changes in v3:
 - Update subject and improve changelog.
 - Add Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Changes in v2:
 - Update subject and commit changelog.
 - Just directly free netdev. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for the feedback.

 drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
index b8f55a1..2c9b92c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
@@ -932,8 +932,7 @@ static int ks7010_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
 	return 0;
 
  err_free_netdev:
-	free_netdev(priv->net_dev);
-	card->priv = NULL;
+	free_netdev(netdev);
  err_release_irq:
 	sdio_claim_host(func);
 	sdio_release_irq(func);
-- 
2.7.4

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