From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] altera-stapl: check for a null key before strcasecmp'ing it
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 12:34:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181124123410.7356-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (raw)
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Currently the null check on key is occurring after the strcasecmp on
the key, hence there is a potential null pointer dereference on key.
Fix this by checking if key is null first. Also replace the == 0
check on strcasecmp with just the ! operator.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1248787 ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: fa766c9be58b ("[media] Altera FPGA firmware download module")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c b/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c
index ef83a9078646..486b8aa63869 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c
@@ -2176,8 +2176,7 @@ static int altera_get_note(u8 *p, s32 program_size,
key_ptr = &p[note_strings +
get_unaligned_be32(
&p[note_table + (8 * i)])];
- if ((strncasecmp(key, key_ptr, strlen(key_ptr)) == 0) &&
- (key != NULL)) {
+ if (key && !strncasecmp(key, key_ptr, strlen(key_ptr))) {
status = 0;
value_ptr = &p[note_strings +
--
2.19.1
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