[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "applicom: dereferencing NULL on error path" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Jul 1 08:51:36 UTC 2014


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

    applicom: dereferencing NULL on error path

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.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 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a81370a07d78a5f77ca5e0bdc58b16bbf9d1827a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 14:59:16 +0300
Subject: applicom: dereferencing NULL on error path

commit 8bab797c6e5724a43b7666ad70860712365cdb71 upstream.

This is a static checker fix.  The "dev" variable is always NULL after
the while statement so we would be dereferencing a NULL pointer here.

Fixes: 819a3eba4233 ('[PATCH] applicom: fix error handling')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/char/applicom.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/applicom.c b/drivers/char/applicom.c
index 974321a2508d..14790304b84b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/applicom.c
+++ b/drivers/char/applicom.c
@@ -345,7 +345,6 @@ out:
 			free_irq(apbs[i].irq, &dummy);
 		iounmap(apbs[i].RamIO);
 	}
-	pci_disable_device(dev);
 	return ret;
 }

--
1.9.1





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