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authorFrank Mori Hess <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>2008-12-15 13:48:47 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-04-03 14:53:52 -0700
commit53b670a75bef4bf6484bbf6ca6a896c365676fd4 (patch)
treea379b1ac4aab872cc41b4718ff0919aaf9785724 /drivers
parenta3cb729ef4a192f04179f780122df78ef1ffe779 (diff)
Staging: comedi: fix bug with invalid minor number usage.
Return error instead of segfaulting if user trys to run comedi_config on a device file with and invalid minor number. From: Frank Mori Hess <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Cc: David Schleef <ds@schleef.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 1464f550a5af..fbd3d1c6c647 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -104,9 +104,13 @@ static int comedi_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
const unsigned minor = iminor(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
struct comedi_device_file_info *dev_file_info =
comedi_get_device_file_info(minor);
- comedi_device *dev = dev_file_info->device;
+ comedi_device *dev;
int rc;
+ if (dev_file_info == NULL || dev_file_info->device == NULL)
+ return -ENODEV;
+ dev = dev_file_info->device;
+
mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
/* Device config is special, because it must work on