Re: [PATCH] usb: core: buffer: avoid NULL pointer dereferrence

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:21:05AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 05:08:03PM +0800, Chunfeng Yun wrote:
> > > NULL pointer dereferrence will happen when class driver
> > > wants to allocate zero length buffer and pool_max[0]
> > > can't be used, so skip reserved pool in this case.
> > 
> > Why would a driver want to allocate a 0 length buffer?  What driver does
> > this?
> > 
> > Shouldn't we fix that issue instead?
> 
> And even if a driver does want to allocate a 0-length buffer, shouldn't 
> the function simply return early instead of running through all its 
> calculations?

Yes it should, Chunfeng, can you fix this patch to do that please.

thanks,

greg k-h