Staging: vt6655-6: potential NULL dereference in hostap_disable_hostapd()
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:55:43 +0000 (10:55 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:14:29 +0000 (09:14 -0800)
We fixed this to use free_netdev() instead of kfree() but unfortunately
free_netdev() doesn't accept NULL pointers.  Smatch complains about
this, it's not something I discovered through testing.

Fixes: 3030d40b5036 ('staging: vt6655: use free_netdev instead of kfree')
Fixes: 0a438d5b381e ('staging: vt6656: use free_netdev instead of kfree')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/vt6655/hostap.c
drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c

index aab0012bba92909611659b78ef982d48aec82cfb..ab8b2ba6eedd79cdb2146ef0911fc0ae88e7a63a 100644 (file)
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ static int hostap_disable_hostapd(PSDevice pDevice, int rtnl_locked)
                DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "%s: Netdevice %s unregistered\n",
                        pDevice->dev->name, pDevice->apdev->name);
        }
-       free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
+       if (pDevice->apdev)
+               free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
        pDevice->apdev = NULL;
        pDevice->bEnable8021x = false;
        pDevice->bEnableHostWEP = false;
index ae1676d190c5b318fcaa43466f58539d39fed095..67ba48b9a8d906d7c8e1091a7ccfdddebf9b9ee5 100644 (file)
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ static int hostap_disable_hostapd(struct vnt_private *pDevice, int rtnl_locked)
             DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "%s: Netdevice %s unregistered\n",
                       pDevice->dev->name, pDevice->apdev->name);
        }
-       free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
+       if (pDevice->apdev)
+               free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
        pDevice->apdev = NULL;
     pDevice->bEnable8021x = false;
     pDevice->bEnableHostWEP = false;