Re: [PATCH] uprobes: don't put NULL pointer in uprobe_register()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Aug 31 2012 - 10:08:15 EST


On 08/30, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>
> alloc_uprobe() might return a NULL pointer, put_uprobe() can't deal with
> this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> index 7b3112c..30f3e23 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> @@ -897,7 +897,8 @@ int uprobe_register(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, struct uprobe_consumer *
> }
>
> mutex_unlock(uprobes_hash(inode));
> - put_uprobe(uprobe);
> + if (uprobe)
> + put_uprobe(uprobe);

Applied as cf54f5c8, thanks.

Oleg.

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