[PATCH][RESEND][ISDN] Guard against a potential NULL pointer dereference in old_capi_manufacturer()

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sat Aug 04 2007 - 14:36:59 EST


(first send: Monday 25 June 2007, resending due to no response)
(resending again on August 8'th, 2007)


In drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c::old_capi_manufacturer(), if the call
to get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr); in line 823 returns NULL, then
we'll be dereferencing a NULL pointer in the very next line.

(Found by Coverity checker as bug #402)


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c b/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
index 3ed34f7..3f9e962 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c
@@ -821,6 +821,8 @@ static int old_capi_manufacturer(unsigned int cmd, void
__user *data)
return -EFAULT;
}
card = get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr);
+ if (!card)
+ return -EINVAL;
card = capi_ctr_get(card);
if (!card)
return -ESRCH;

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