Re: [PATCH] drivers/mmc/card/block.c: fix potential null dereference'idata'

From: Vladimir Motyka
Date: Mon May 09 2011 - 16:38:34 EST


When allocation of idata failed there was a null dereference. Also avoid
calling kfree where it is needn't.

---
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
index 407836d..126c7f4 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
@@ -237,24 +237,24 @@ static struct mmc_blk_ioc_data
*mmc_blk_ioctl_copy_from_user(
idata = kzalloc(sizeof(*idata), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!idata) {
err = -ENOMEM;
- goto copy_err;
+ goto out;
}

if (copy_from_user(&idata->ic, user, sizeof(idata->ic))) {
err = -EFAULT;
- goto copy_err;
+ goto idata_err;
}

idata->buf_bytes = (u64) idata->ic.blksz * idata->ic.blocks;
if (idata->buf_bytes > MMC_IOC_MAX_BYTES) {
err = -EOVERFLOW;
- goto copy_err;
+ goto idata_err;
}

idata->buf = kzalloc(idata->buf_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!idata->buf) {
err = -ENOMEM;
- goto copy_err;
+ goto idata_err;
}

if (copy_from_user(idata->buf, (void __user *)(unsigned long)
@@ -267,9 +267,10 @@ static struct mmc_blk_ioc_data
*mmc_blk_ioctl_copy_from_user(

copy_err:
kfree(idata->buf);
+idata_err:
kfree(idata);
+out:
return ERR_PTR(err);
-
}

static int mmc_blk_ioctl_cmd(struct block_device *bdev,
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