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staging: ks7010_sdio: fix NULL pointer dereference and memory leak

PATCH New Gustavo A. R. Silva 1 participant 1 message Apr 12, 2018 Staging

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PATCH v3 1/1 staging: ks7010_sdio: fix NULL pointer dereference and memory leak

priv is being explicitly dereferenced when it is still null, when jumping to goto label err_free_netdev, before it is properly updated with a valid memory address.

Also, when this happens, memory allocated for netdev at line 854:
netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*priv)) is not being free'd before return, hence there is a memory leak.

The current code looks a bit too complicated and can be replaced by just directly freeing netdev before return.

Notice that card->priv = NULL isn't required because the next thing we do to card is kfree(card).

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1467844 ("Explicit null dereferenced")

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Changes in v3:
- Update subject and improve changelog.
- Add Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

Changes in v2:
- Update subject and commit changelog.
- Just directly free netdev. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for the feedback.

 drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c +1 -2
index b8f55a1..2c9b92c 100644
@@ -932,8 +932,7 @@ static int ks7010_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
 	return 0;
 
  err_free_netdev:
-	free_netdev(priv->net_dev);
-	card->priv = NULL;
+	free_netdev(netdev);
  err_release_irq:
 	sdio_claim_host(func);
 	sdio_release_irq(func);
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