Patch "dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in atc_prep_dma_interleaved" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in atc_prep_dma_interleaved

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     dmaengine-at_hdmac-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-atc_prep_dma_interleaved.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:58:50 CET 2018
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 08:28:14 -0600
Subject: dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in atc_prep_dma_interleaved

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>


[ Upstream commit 62a277d43d47e74972de44d33bd3763e31992414 ]

_xt_ is being dereferenced before it is null checked, hence there is a
potential null pointer dereference.

Fix this by moving the pointer dereference after _xt_ has been null
checked.

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Fixes: 4483320e241c ("dmaengine: Use Pointer xt after NULL check.")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Acked-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ atc_prep_dma_interleaved(struct dma_chan
 			 unsigned long flags)
 {
 	struct at_dma_chan	*atchan = to_at_dma_chan(chan);
-	struct data_chunk	*first = xt->sgl;
+	struct data_chunk	*first;
 	struct at_desc		*desc = NULL;
 	size_t			xfer_count;
 	unsigned int		dwidth;
@@ -728,6 +728,8 @@ atc_prep_dma_interleaved(struct dma_chan
 	if (unlikely(!xt || xt->numf != 1 || !xt->frame_size))
 		return NULL;
 
+	first = xt->sgl;
+
 	dev_info(chan2dev(chan),
 		 "%s: src=%pad, dest=%pad, numf=%d, frame_size=%d, flags=0x%lx\n",
 		__func__, &xt->src_start, &xt->dst_start, xt->numf,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from garsilva@embeddedor.com are

queue-4.4/dmaengine-at_hdmac-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-atc_prep_dma_interleaved.patch