From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@selhorst.net>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: tpm: fix potential null pointer dereference
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 17:40:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170530174027.Horde.AYiQnLwlE09KhkcqzdNaVTk@gator4166.hostgator.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170530222119.GA8643@obsidianresearch.com>
Hi Jason,
Quoting Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 05:05:20PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> NULL check at line 376: if (!chip) {, implies chip might be NULL.
>> Function dev_get_drvdata() dereference pointer chip.
>> Move pointer tmp_dev assignment after the NULL check.
>
> chip cannot be null in st33zp24_send, please remove the bogus if
> instead.
>
I get it.
Thanks for clarifying.
--
Gustavo A. R. Silva
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-30 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-30 22:05 [PATCH] char: tpm: fix potential null pointer dereference Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-05-30 22:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-05-30 22:40 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2017-05-31 0:05 ` [PATCH] char: tpm: remove unnecessary code Gustavo A. R. Silva
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