[PATCH] USB: keyspan: fix potential null pointer dereference

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Fri May 16 2014 - 11:40:18 EST


From: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Move control-urb dereference to after NULL-check. There is otherwise a
risk of a possible null pointer dereference.

Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called
cppcheck.

[Johan: modify commit message somewhat ]

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v2.6.12
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c b/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c
index d3acaead5a81..93cb7cebda62 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c
@@ -1535,14 +1535,14 @@ static int keyspan_usa26_send_setup(struct usb_serial *serial,

this_urb = p_priv->outcont_urb;

- dev_dbg(&port->dev, "%s - endpoint %d\n", __func__, usb_pipeendpoint(this_urb->pipe));
-
/* Make sure we have an urb then send the message */
if (this_urb == NULL) {
dev_dbg(&port->dev, "%s - oops no urb.\n", __func__);
return -1;
}

+ dev_dbg(&port->dev, "%s - endpoint %d\n", __func__, usb_pipeendpoint(this_urb->pipe));
+
/* Save reset port val for resend.
Don't overwrite resend for open/close condition. */
if ((reset_port + 1) > p_priv->resend_cont)
--
1.8.5.5

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