user pointer bugs

["Suhabe Bugrara" <suhabe@stanford.edu>]

Hello,

In linux-2.6.19.2, do the following lines have bugs in them? It looks
like they dereference a user pointer without first being checked by
the "access_ok" macro to ensure that they point into userspace.

Suhabe

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File: sound/isa/sscape.c
Lines: 550, 665
Description: The pointer "bb" is dereferenced in the expression
"bb->code" without being checked first.
Fix: Replace "bb->code" with "&bb->code"

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File: block/scsi_ioctl.c
Lines: 406, 427, 430, 482, 486
Description: The pointer "sic" is dereferenced in the expression
"sic->data" without being checked first.
Fix: Replace "sic->code" with "&sic->code"

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File: sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c
Line: 4589
Description: The pointer "mixer" is dereferenced in the expression
"mixer->data" without being checked first.
Fix: Replace "mixer->matrix" with "&mixer->matrix"
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