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authorStefan Richter2009-12-26 01:47:12 +0100
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab2010-02-26 19:10:33 +0100
commitb2ad41f9ef72d7b3309a2578bf4432a262ff2b47 (patch)
treec0f57376ab77aace63f1670710baaffa79d4b8f9 /drivers/media/dvb/firewire
parentV4L/DVB (13952): gspca: Storage class should be before const qualifier (diff)
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V4L/DVB (13953): firedtv: add missing NULL pointer check
If there is ever going to be a FireDTV or FloppyDTV firmware which does not provide a minimal ASCII textual descriptor for Model_Id --- or if the descriptor is provided indirectly in a descriptor directory --- the ieee1394 variant of the device probe of firedtv would dereference a NULL pointer. The firewire variant of firedtv's device probe is not affected. The fix makes sure that such an unexpected firmware is safely recognized by fdtv_alloc as an unknown firmware. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/dvb/firewire')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-1394.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-1394.c b/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-1394.c
index 7c5459c27b75..81a56293540d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-1394.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-1394.c
@@ -192,9 +192,13 @@ static int node_probe(struct device *dev)
int kv_len, err;
void *kv_str;
- kv_len = (ud->model_name_kv->value.leaf.len - 2) * sizeof(quadlet_t);
- kv_str = CSR1212_TEXTUAL_DESCRIPTOR_LEAF_DATA(ud->model_name_kv);
-
+ if (ud->model_name_kv) {
+ kv_len = (ud->model_name_kv->value.leaf.len - 2) * 4;
+ kv_str = CSR1212_TEXTUAL_DESCRIPTOR_LEAF_DATA(ud->model_name_kv);
+ } else {
+ kv_len = 0;
+ kv_str = NULL;
+ }
fdtv = fdtv_alloc(dev, &fdtv_1394_backend, kv_str, kv_len);
if (!fdtv)
return -ENOMEM;