From 15bde72738f373aa060ececeda8e064e4f924360 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:50:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] RxRPC: Fix a potential NULL dereference Fix a potential NULL dereference bug during error handling in rxrpc_kernel_begin_call(), whereby rxrpc_put_transport() may be handed a NULL pointer. This was found with a code checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/). Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c index d7d2bed7a699..eac5e7bb7365 100644 --- a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c +++ b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c @@ -284,13 +284,13 @@ struct rxrpc_call *rxrpc_kernel_begin_call(struct socket *sock, if (IS_ERR(trans)) { call = ERR_CAST(trans); trans = NULL; - goto out; + goto out_notrans; } } else { trans = rx->trans; if (!trans) { call = ERR_PTR(-ENOTCONN); - goto out; + goto out_notrans; } atomic_inc(&trans->usage); } @@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ struct rxrpc_call *rxrpc_kernel_begin_call(struct socket *sock, rxrpc_put_bundle(trans, bundle); out: rxrpc_put_transport(trans); +out_notrans: release_sock(&rx->sk); _leave(" = %p", call); return call;