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rndis_host: fix oops when query for OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM fails
authorJussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:45:44 +0000 (12:45 +0200)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:42:06 +0000 (23:42 -0400)
When query for OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM fails, uninitialized pointer
'phym' is being accessed in generic_rndis_bind(), resulting OOPS.
Patch fixes phym to be initialized and setup correctly when
rndis_query() for physical medium fails.

Bug was introduced by following commit:
commit 039ee17d1baabaa21783a0d5ab3e8c6d8c794bdf
Author: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Date:   Sun Jan 27 23:34:33 2008 +0200

Reported-by: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c

index 727547a289920dd59b7ca2ec3045c031cd75c856..369c731114b3c67ffa8f1e5f9760aad22caa7817 100644 (file)
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ generic_rndis_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf, int flags)
                struct rndis_set_c      *set_c;
                struct rndis_halt       *halt;
        } u;
-       u32                     tmp, *phym;
+       u32                     tmp, phym_unspec, *phym;
        int                     reply_len;
        unsigned char           *bp;
 
@@ -363,12 +363,15 @@ generic_rndis_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf, int flags)
                goto halt_fail_and_release;
 
        /* Check physical medium */
+       phym = NULL;
        reply_len = sizeof *phym;
        retval = rndis_query(dev, intf, u.buf, OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM,
                        0, (void **) &phym, &reply_len);
-       if (retval != 0)
+       if (retval != 0 || !phym) {
                /* OID is optional so don't fail here. */
-               *phym = RNDIS_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM_UNSPECIFIED;
+               phym_unspec = RNDIS_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM_UNSPECIFIED;
+               phym = &phym_unspec;
+       }
        if ((flags & FLAG_RNDIS_PHYM_WIRELESS) &&
                        *phym != RNDIS_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM_WIRELESS_LAN) {
                if (netif_msg_probe(dev))