From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:29:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: NET: netpoll, fix potential NULL ptr dereference
X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.2.0-15.16~25624^2~6
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21edbb223ed2af88b090e7945af7d91d672e3aa6;p=mirror_ubuntu-eoan-kernel.git

NET: netpoll, fix potential NULL ptr dereference

Stanse found that one error path in netpoll_setup dereferences npinfo
even though it is NULL. Avoid that by adding new label and go to that
instead.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <danborkmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: chavey@google.com
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 7aa697253765..d4ec38fa64e6 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
 		npinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*npinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!npinfo) {
 			err = -ENOMEM;
-			goto release;
+			goto put;
 		}
 
 		npinfo->rx_flags = 0;
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
 
 		kfree(npinfo);
 	}
-
+put:
 	dev_put(ndev);
 	return err;
 }