Re: drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c: NULL dereference

From: Oliver Bock
Date: Wed Aug 16 2006 - 16:49:12 EST


Thanks guys!
Sorry for that blunder...

Oliver

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 02:57, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:04:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The Coverity Checker spotted the following obvious NULL dereference:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > ...
> > static int cypress_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
> > const struct usb_device_id *id)
> > {
> > ...
> > if (dev == NULL) {
> > dev_err(&dev->udev->dev, "Out of memory!\n");
> > goto error;
> > }
> > ...
> > }
> > ...
> >
> > <-- snip -->
>
> Thanks for letting me know, the patch below should fix this.
>
> greg k-h
>
> ------------
>
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: USB: fix bug in cypress_cy7c63.c driver
>
> This was pointed out by Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>, as found by the
> Coverity Checker.
>
>
> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oliver Bock <o.bock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c
> +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c
> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int cypress_probe(struct usb_inte
> /* allocate memory for our device state and initialize it */
> dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (dev == NULL) {
> - dev_err(&dev->udev->dev, "Out of memory!\n");
> + dev_err(&interface->dev, "Out of memory!\n");
> goto error;
> }
-
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