[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "staging: comedi: pcmuio: fix possible NULL deref on detach" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    staging: comedi: pcmuio: fix possible NULL deref on detach

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 24150a698295b9cf8b9254e33bee54d313d27f8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:50:19 +0100
Subject: staging: comedi: pcmuio: fix possible NULL deref on detach

commit 2fd2bdfccae61efe18f6b92b6a45fbf936d75b48 upstream.

pcmuio_detach() is called by the comedi core even if pcmuio_attach()
returned an error, so `dev->private` might be `NULL`.  Check for that
before dereferencing it.

Also, as pointed out by Dan Carpenter, there is no need to check the
pointer passed to `kfree()` is non-NULL, so remove that check.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
[ Ian: Applies to 3.5.y only ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c
index 623381d..d49c873 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c
@@ -914,12 +914,13 @@ static void pcmuio_detach(struct comedi_device *dev)

 	if (dev->iobase)
 		release_region(dev->iobase, ASIC_IOSIZE * thisboard->num_asics);
-	for (i = 0; i < MAX_ASICS; ++i) {
-		if (devpriv->asics[i].irq)
-			free_irq(devpriv->asics[i].irq, dev);
-	}
-	if (devpriv && devpriv->sprivs)
+	if (devpriv) {
+		for (i = 0; i < MAX_ASICS; ++i) {
+			if (devpriv->asics[i].irq)
+				free_irq(devpriv->asics[i].irq, dev);
+		}
 		kfree(devpriv->sprivs);
+	}
 }

 static const struct pcmuio_board pcmuio_boards[] = {
--
1.8.3.2