From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753345AbaIEPbY (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:31:24 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-239.synserver.de ([212.40.185.239]:1061 "EHLO smtp-out-239.synserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752753AbaIEPbW (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:31:22 -0400 X-SynServer-TrustedSrc: 1 X-SynServer-AuthUser: lars@metafoo.de X-SynServer-PPID: 5520 Message-ID: <5409D74A.1000604@metafoo.de> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:31:22 +0200 From: Lars-Peter Clausen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Dan Williams , Vinod Koul , Michal Simek , Dan Carpenter , dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Kyungmin Park , Marek Szyprowski , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] dmaengine: pl330: Fix NULL pointer dereference on probe failure References: <1409929466-29506-1-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com> <1409929466-29506-2-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com> In-Reply-To: <1409929466-29506-2-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/05/2014 05:04 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > If dma_async_device_register() returns error and probe should clean up > and return error, a NULL pointer exception happens because of > dereference of not allocated channel thread: > [...] > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen