[PATCH] ensure NULL deref can't possibly happen in is_exported()
If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is defined and if it should happen that is_exported() is
given a NULL 'mod' and lookup_symbol(name, __start___ksymtab,
__stop___ksymtab) returns 0, then we'll end up dereferencing a NULL
pointer.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index bbe0486..d75275d 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@
if (!mod && lookup_symbol(name, __start___ksymtab, __stop___ksymtab))
return 1;
else
- if (lookup_symbol(name, mod->syms, mod->syms + mod->num_syms))
+ if (mod && lookup_symbol(name, mod->syms, mod->syms + mod->num_syms))
return 1;
else
return 0;