From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762387AbYHRTCX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:02:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762031AbYHRTAO (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:00:14 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36795 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762025AbYHRTAM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:00:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:44:48 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Cc: Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , Domenico Andreoli , Willy Tarreau , Rodrigo Rubira Branco , Jake Edge , Eugene Teo , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Hans Verkuil , Jean Delvare Subject: [patch 38/60] i2c: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i2c_new_probed_device Message-ID: <20080818184448.GM29394@suse.de> References: <20080818183230.966310219@mini.kroah.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline; filename="i2c-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-i2c_new_probed_device.patch" In-Reply-To: <20080818184035.GA29394@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.26-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Hans Verkuil Already in Linus' tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b25b791b13aaa336b56c4f9bd417ff126363f80b Fix a NULL pointer dereference that happened when calling i2c_new_probed_device on one of the addresses for which we use byte reads instead of quick write for detection purpose (that is: 0x30-0x37 and 0x50-0x5f). Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c @@ -1196,9 +1196,11 @@ i2c_new_probed_device(struct i2c_adapter if ((addr_list[i] & ~0x07) == 0x30 || (addr_list[i] & ~0x0f) == 0x50 || !i2c_check_functionality(adap, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_QUICK)) { + union i2c_smbus_data data; + if (i2c_smbus_xfer(adap, addr_list[i], 0, I2C_SMBUS_READ, 0, - I2C_SMBUS_BYTE, NULL) >= 0) + I2C_SMBUS_BYTE, &data) >= 0) break; } else { if (i2c_smbus_xfer(adap, addr_list[i], 0, --