[PATCH] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: clear dangling pointer

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Fri Dec 23 2011 - 08:27:18 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

On some failures, the country_code field of an acm structure is freed
without freeing the acm structure itself. Elsewhere, operations including
memcpy and kfree are performed on the country_code field. The patch sets
the country_code field to NULL when it is freed, and likewise sets the
country_code_size field to 0.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

---
Only compile tested. The second goto skip_countries serves no purpose, but
is perhaps useful from a readability point of view.

drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
index f30fbff..9543b19 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
@@ -1230,6 +1230,8 @@ made_compressed_probe:
i = device_create_file(&intf->dev, &dev_attr_wCountryCodes);
if (i < 0) {
kfree(acm->country_codes);
+ acm->country_codes = NULL;
+ acm->country_code_size = 0;
goto skip_countries;
}

@@ -1238,6 +1240,8 @@ made_compressed_probe:
if (i < 0) {
device_remove_file(&intf->dev, &dev_attr_wCountryCodes);
kfree(acm->country_codes);
+ acm->country_codes = NULL;
+ acm->country_code_size = 0;
goto skip_countries;
}
}

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