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From: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] reset: NULL deref on allocation failure
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:56:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130404115648.GD21790@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130403050253.GA31179@longonot.mountain>

Philipp,

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:49:36AM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 03.04.2013, 08:02 +0300 schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > "rstc" is NULL here and we should use "rcdev" instead of "rstc->rcdev".
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/reset/core.c b/drivers/reset/core.c
> > index a258277..d1b6089 100644
> > --- a/drivers/reset/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/reset/core.c
> > @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ struct reset_control *reset_control_get(struct device *dev, const char *id)
> >  
> >  	rstc = kzalloc(sizeof(*rstc), GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (!rstc) {
> > -		module_put(rstc->rcdev->owner);
> > +		module_put(rcdev->owner);
> >  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> >  	}
> 
> Acked-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> 
I think you should take care of the patch to have it merged through the
same path that the 'reset API' series goes to mainline.

Shawn


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-04 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03  5:02 [patch] reset: NULL deref on allocation failure Dan Carpenter
2013-04-04  7:49 ` Philipp Zabel
2013-04-04 11:56 ` Shawn Guo [this message]
2013-04-04 12:13 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-04-09  8:08 ` Philipp Zabel

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