[PATCH] appletalk: prevent unregister_sysctl_table() with a NULL argument

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Tue Oct 24 2006 - 04:54:23 EST


If register_sysctl_table() fails during module initalization,
NULL pointer dereference will happen in the module cleanup.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>

net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: work-fault-inject/net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.c
===================================================================
--- work-fault-inject.orig/net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.c
+++ work-fault-inject/net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.c
@@ -78,5 +78,6 @@ void atalk_register_sysctl(void)

void atalk_unregister_sysctl(void)
{
- unregister_sysctl_table(atalk_table_header);
+ if (atalk_table_header)
+ unregister_sysctl_table(atalk_table_header);
}
-
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