From: Jesper Juhl In drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c::old_capi_manufacturer(), if the call to get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr); in line 823 returns NULL, then we'll be dereferencing a NULL pointer in the very next line. (Found by Coverity checker as bug #402) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Acked-by: Karsten Keil Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c~isdn-guard-against-a-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-old_capi_manufacturer drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c --- a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c~isdn-guard-against-a-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-old_capi_manufacturer +++ a/drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c @@ -821,6 +821,8 @@ static int old_capi_manufacturer(unsigne return -EFAULT; } card = get_capi_ctr_by_nr(ldef.contr); + if (!card) + return -EINVAL; card = capi_ctr_get(card); if (!card) return -ESRCH; _