BUG null dereference in driver ./drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c

From: Alexander Strakh
Date: Mon Dec 21 2009 - 10:58:07 EST


KERNEL_VERSION: 2.6.32
SUBJECT: null derefernce in function sisusb_probe
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In driver drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c in function
sisusb_probe:

1. if in line 3085 after calling function kzalloc variable sisub =
NULL, then we goto line 3086.
2. In line 3086: null dereference of sisusb - "&sisusb->sisusb_dev->dev".

3084 /* Allocate memory for our private */
3085 if (!(sisusb = kzalloc(sizeof(*sisusb), GFP_KERNEL))) {
3086 dev_err(&sisusb->sisusb_dev->dev, "Failed to allocate
memory for private data\n");
3087 return -ENOMEM;
3088 }
3089 kref_init(&sisusb->kref);

Found by Linux Device Drivers Verification Project (Svace Detector)
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