Re: [PATCH] scsi: dc395x.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Mon May 19 2014 - 07:40:04 EST


On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 21:50 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2014, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
>
> > There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.
> >
> > Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/scsi/dc395x.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/dc395x.c b/drivers/scsi/dc395x.c
> > index 83d9bf6..0d86bc7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/dc395x.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/dc395x.c
> > @@ -2637,7 +2637,7 @@ static struct ScsiReqBlk *msgin_qtag(struct AdapterCtlBlk *acb,
> > struct ScsiReqBlk *srb = NULL;
> > struct ScsiReqBlk *i;
> > dprintkdbg(DBG_0, "msgin_qtag: (0x%p) tag=%i srb=%p\n",
> > - srb->cmd, tag, srb);
> > + srb ? srb->cmd : 0, tag, srb);
>
> There's not just a risk, it is a NULL-pointer dereference, so, just remove
> it, e.g. like

Indeed. Thank you both for catching this.

Regards
Oliver



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