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authorAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2006-03-10 19:04:38 +0100
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2006-04-02 18:51:50 +0200
commitc9d1a0b8d52e7539e22f3c3190f8b6e0c80b6cfe (patch)
treeea27a7a0e334f925eb6e42fb060d252c8439166a /drivers/char
parent6bbc20bc0b5d9c5a351fb3a027e60e396c1329a6 (diff)
[WATCHDOG] pcwd_usb.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference
The Coverity checker noted that this resulted in a NULL pointer reference if we were coming from if (usb_pcwd == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR PFX "Out of memory\n"); goto error; } Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c b/drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c
index 2700c5c45b8..3fdfda9324f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/char/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c
@@ -705,7 +705,8 @@ err_out_misc_deregister:
err_out_unregister_reboot:
unregister_reboot_notifier(&usb_pcwd_notifier);
error:
- usb_pcwd_delete (usb_pcwd);
+ if (usb_pcwd)
+ usb_pcwd_delete(usb_pcwd);
usb_pcwd_device = NULL;
return retval;
}