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| author | Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> | 2006-04-19 07:21:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-04-19 18:13:52 +0200 |
| commit | aa1e816fc92215f94bdfd90107baae8fdc2440d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d520ff39b65a7d3a5f68008eb44ea15c63e0d96 | |
| parent | [PATCH] config: update usage/help info (diff) | |
| download | linux-aa1e816fc92215f94bdfd90107baae8fdc2440d1.tar.xz linux-aa1e816fc92215f94bdfd90107baae8fdc2440d1.zip | |
[PATCH] Fix potential NULL pointer deref in gen_init_cpio
Fix potential NULL pointer deref in gen_init_cpio.c spotted by coverity
checker. This fixes coverity bug #86
Without this patch we risk dereferencing a NULL `type' in the
"if ('\n' == *type) {" line.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | usr/gen_init_cpio.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr/gen_init_cpio.c b/usr/gen_init_cpio.c index 33dbcbf77c5b..83acd6cc0b3c 100644 --- a/usr/gen_init_cpio.c +++ b/usr/gen_init_cpio.c @@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[]) "ERROR: incorrect format, could not locate file type line %d: '%s'\n", line_nr, line); ec = -1; + break; } if ('\n' == *type) { @@ -506,7 +507,8 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[]) line_nr, line); } } - cpio_trailer(); + if (ec == 0) + cpio_trailer(); exit(ec); } |