On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote: > If, in usb_hid_configure(), we fail to allocate storage for 'usbhid', > "if (!(usbhid = kzalloc(sizeof(struct usbhid_device), GFP_KERNEL)))", > then we'll jump to the 'fail:' label where we have this code: > usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbin); > usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbout); > usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbctrl); > Since we got here because we couldn't allocate storage for 'usbhid', > what we have here is a NULL pointer dereference - ouch...
Hi Jesper, thanks a lot for noticing this, I have queued your patch in HID tree. (and sorry for late reply, I was offline on vacation for some time). -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/