From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:58:10 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ppp: potential NULL dereference in ppp_mp_explode() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3429769bc67c7a48b3c01b2452b32171b3450202;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git ppp: potential NULL dereference in ppp_mp_explode() Smatch complains because we check whether "pch->chan" is NULL and then dereference it unconditionally on the next line. Partly the reason this bug was introduced is because code was too complicated. I've simplified it a little. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c index 6695a51e09e9..736b91703b3e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c @@ -1314,8 +1314,13 @@ static int ppp_mp_explode(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb) hdrlen = (ppp->flags & SC_MP_XSHORTSEQ)? MPHDRLEN_SSN: MPHDRLEN; i = 0; list_for_each_entry(pch, &ppp->channels, clist) { - navail += pch->avail = (pch->chan != NULL); - pch->speed = pch->chan->speed; + if (pch->chan) { + pch->avail = 1; + navail++; + pch->speed = pch->chan->speed; + } else { + pch->avail = 0; + } if (pch->avail) { if (skb_queue_empty(&pch->file.xq) || !pch->had_frag) {