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staging: comedi: amplc_pc236: fix possible NULL deref during detach
authorIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:25:18 +0000 (16:25 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:46:35 +0000 (11:46 -0700)
commit2db012bd40b889d8e5483d3daa07af04c4c109d8
treea5da369fb3beec3005faf761f2fa38ed2a3761f6
parentaaeb61a97b7159ebe30b18a422d04eeabfa8790b
staging: comedi: amplc_pc236: fix possible NULL deref during detach

`pc236_detach()` is called by the comedi core to clean up if either
`pc236_attach()` or `pc236_attach_pci()` returns an error.  It sets
`thisboard` to the return value of `comedi_board(dev)` and assumes it is
non-null.  This is a valid assumption if `pc236_attach()` fails, but not
if `pc236_attach_pci()` fails, leading to a possible NULL pointer
dereference.

Check `thisboard` at the top of `pc236_detach()` and return early if it
is `NULL`.  This is okay because the only other thing that could have
been allocated is `dev->private` and that is freed by the comedi core,
not by this function.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.6.x
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/amplc_pc236.c