ppp: potential NULL dereference in ppp_mp_explode()
authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:58:10 +0000 (01:58 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:44:11 +0000 (12:44 -0700)
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 <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ppp_generic.c

index 6695a51e09e9b86340aa0cee342f2fb8d99e1159..736b91703b3e11578eda930e7b119a06f96c0fc6 100644 (file)
@@ -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) {