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USB: fix NULL pointer dereference on drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c 

Am Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007 05:23:47 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:08:52 -0800 (PST) bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> 
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9573
 
> > There's a null pointer dereference on drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c as
> > follows:
> > 
> > (1) line 613:  the test "if (port->tty)" implies that null is a legal value
> >     for "port->tty" at that point
> > 
> > (2) neither firm_open nor firm_purge initialize "port->tty"

drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial::serial_open() sets port->tty
The check for NULL is bogus. This patch removes the check.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Oliver Neukum 2007-12-20 12:23:03 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent e7b13ec923
commit e58679805d
1 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -610,8 +610,7 @@ static int whiteheat_open (struct usb_serial_port *port, struct file *filp)
if (retval)
goto exit;
if (port->tty)
port->tty->low_latency = 1;
port->tty->low_latency = 1;
/* send an open port command */
retval = firm_open(port);