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authorstephen hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>2015-11-17 22:26:06 (GMT)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-11-18 19:58:03 (GMT)
commit52d178516dcf61e7a59363a572458c830af6e520 (patch)
tree2b23b754f77f5aec29282d380f94f2a8f62958dc /drivers/net/wan
parent6f97532ef05e49f1998a09f8359b83d00a7b3229 (diff)
downloadlinux-52d178516dcf61e7a59363a572458c830af6e520.tar.xz
hdlc: fix null-deref on allocation failure
If alloc_netdev() failed and return NULL, then the next instruction would dereference it. Found by Coverity. Compile tested only. Not sure if anyone still uses this driver (or the whole WAN subsystem). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wan')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
index e92aaf6..89541cc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
@@ -1075,11 +1075,10 @@ static int fr_add_pvc(struct net_device *frad, unsigned int dlci, int type)
used = pvc_is_used(pvc);
- if (type == ARPHRD_ETHER) {
+ if (type == ARPHRD_ETHER)
dev = alloc_netdev(0, "pvceth%d", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN,
ether_setup);
- dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;
- } else
+ else
dev = alloc_netdev(0, "pvc%d", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, pvc_setup);
if (!dev) {
@@ -1088,9 +1087,10 @@ static int fr_add_pvc(struct net_device *frad, unsigned int dlci, int type)
return -ENOBUFS;
}
- if (type == ARPHRD_ETHER)
+ if (type == ARPHRD_ETHER) {
+ dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;
eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
- else {
+ } else {
*(__be16*)dev->dev_addr = htons(dlci);
dlci_to_q922(dev->broadcast, dlci);
}