[PATCH] staging: ks7010_sdio: fix NULL pointer dereference and memory leak

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Thu Apr 12 2018 - 10:30:19 EST


priv is being dereferenced when it is still null, hence there is an
explicit null pointer dereference at line 935: free_netdev(priv->net_dev)

Also, memory allocated for netdev at line 854:
netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*priv));
is not being free'd, hence there is a memory leak.

Fix this by null checking priv before dererefencing it and free netdev
before return.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1467844 ("Explicit null dereferenced")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
index b8f55a1..f5d4c62 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
@@ -932,8 +932,12 @@ static int ks7010_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
return 0;

err_free_netdev:
- free_netdev(priv->net_dev);
- card->priv = NULL;
+ if (priv) {
+ free_netdev(priv->net_dev);
+ card->priv = NULL;
+ } else {
+ free_netdev(netdev);
+ }
err_release_irq:
sdio_claim_host(func);
sdio_release_irq(func);
--
2.7.4