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staging: comedi: ni_labpc: fix possible NULL deref during detach
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`labpc_common_detach()` is called by the comedi core to clean up if
either `labpc_attach()` (including the one in the "ni_labpc_cs" module)
or `labpc_attach_pci()` returns an error.  It assumes the `thisboard`
macro (expanding to `((struct labpc_board_struct *)dev->board_ptr)`) is
non-null.  This is a valid assumption if `labpc_attach()` fails, but not
if `labpc_attach_pci()` fails, leading to a possible NULL pointer
dereference.

Check `thisboard` at the top of `labpc_common_detach()` and return early
if it is `NULL`.  This is okay because the only other thing that could
have been allocated is `dev->private` and that is freed by the comedi
core, not by this function.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.6.x
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Ian Abbott authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Oct 22, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -772,6 +772,8 @@ void labpc_common_detach(struct comedi_device *dev)
{
struct comedi_subdevice *s;

if (!thisboard)
return;
if (dev->subdevices) {
s = &dev->subdevices[2];
subdev_8255_cleanup(dev, s);
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