staging: comedi: jr3_pci: fix possible null pointer dereference
For some reason, the driver does not consider allocation of the subdevice private data to be a fatal error when attaching the COMEDI device. It tests the subdevice private data pointer for validity at certain points, but omits some crucial tests. In particular, `jr3_pci_auto_attach()` calls `jr3_pci_alloc_spriv()` to allocate and initialize the subdevice private data, but the same function subsequently dereferences the pointer to access the `next_time_min` and `next_time_max` members without checking it first. The other missing test is in the timer expiry routine `jr3_pci_poll_dev()`, but it will crash before it gets that far. Fix the bug by returning `-ENOMEM` from `jr3_pci_auto_attach()` as soon as one of the calls to `jr3_pci_alloc_spriv()` returns `NULL`. The COMEDI core will subsequently call `jr3_pci_detach()` to clean up. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15+ Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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