From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com, wsa@the-dreams.de,
andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v1] i2c: busses: i2c-designware-pcidrv:- Handle return NULL error from pcim_iomap_table
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:50:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161222115033.GO1460@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1482406759-13094-1-git-send-email-arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 05:09:19PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Here, If pcim_iomap_table will fail. It will return NULL.
> Kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference.
> This error check will avoid NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-pcidrv.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-pcidrv.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-pcidrv.c
> index d6423cf..6a1907d 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-pcidrv.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-pcidrv.c
> @@ -235,6 +235,10 @@ static int i2c_dw_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> dev->controller = controller;
> dev->get_clk_rate_khz = i2c_dw_get_clk_rate_khz;
> dev->base = pcim_iomap_table(pdev)[0];
> + if (!dev->base) {
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "I/O map table allocation failed\n");
> + return -ENOMEM;
Are you sure this can actually happen?
IIRC pcim_iomap_regions() (which is called before this) makes sure the
BARs you access here are valid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-22 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-22 11:39 [v1] i2c: busses: i2c-designware-pcidrv:- Handle return NULL error from pcim_iomap_table Arvind Yadav
2016-12-22 11:50 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2016-12-22 14:35 ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-12-22 17:11 ` arvind Yadav
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