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[PATCH] Fix potential NULL pointer deref in gen_init_cpio

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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>
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Jesper Juhl 2006-04-18 22:21:54 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9dfb563b07
commit aa1e816fc9
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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usr/gen_init_cpio.c
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@ -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);
}