From 5dc474d6b3ba19df7d491d4eabd9fb7a0c1c2423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julia Lawall Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:43:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] pppol2tp: Remove null pointer dereference. If session is NULL, it is not possible to access its name field. So I have split apart the printing of the error message to drop the printing of the name field in this case. The macro PRINTK actually only evaluates its arguments starting with the third one if the bitwise conjunction of the first two is non-zero. Normally, this conjunction would only be non-zero if debugging mode were turned on, but when session is NULL, the first argument in both the old and new code is -1, and thus the bitwise conjunction is true. Perhaps a different strategy is desired, such as using tunnel->debug, which session->debug is initialized to, but tunnel can also be NULL, so this does not completely solve the problem. This problem was found using the following semantic match (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @@ expression E, E1; identifier f; statement S1,S2,S3; @@ * if (E == NULL) { ... when != if (E == NULL) S1 else S2 when != E = E1 * E->f ... when any return ...; } else S3 // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/pppol2tp.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c b/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c index 244d7830c92a..79359919335b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c +++ b/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c @@ -1621,9 +1621,16 @@ static int pppol2tp_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uservaddr, end: release_sock(sk); - if (error != 0) - PRINTK(session ? session->debug : -1, PPPOL2TP_MSG_CONTROL, KERN_WARNING, - "%s: connect failed: %d\n", session->name, error); + if (error != 0) { + if (session) + PRINTK(session->debug, + PPPOL2TP_MSG_CONTROL, KERN_WARNING, + "%s: connect failed: %d\n", + session->name, error); + else + PRINTK(-1, PPPOL2TP_MSG_CONTROL, KERN_WARNING, + "connect failed: %d\n", error); + } return error; }