Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754028AbdLGOIz (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:08:55 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:60170 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753516AbdLGM6Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2017 07:58:24 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Colin Ian King , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 018/109] staging: rtl8188eu: avoid a null dereference on pmlmepriv Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 13:56:02 +0100 Message-Id: <20171207125636.802406257@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.15.1 In-Reply-To: <20171207125634.631485452@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20171207125634.631485452@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1465 Lines: 43 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Colin Ian King [ Upstream commit 123c0aab0050cd0e07ce18e453389fbbb0a5a425 ] There is a check on pmlmepriv before dereferencing it when vfree'ing pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf however the previous call to rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data deferences pmlmepriv causing a null pointer deference if it is null. Avoid this by also calling rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data if the pointer is non-null. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1230262 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 7b464c9fa5cc ("staging: r8188eu: Add files for new driver - part 4") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c @@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ void rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(struct m void rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) { - rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); - - if (pmlmepriv) + if (pmlmepriv) { + rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf); + } } struct wlan_network *_rtw_alloc_network(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv)