* [PATCH] ACPICA: fix possible NULL dereference
@ 2015-09-10 10:19 Sudip Mukherjee
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From: Sudip Mukherjee @ 2015-09-10 10:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Robert Moore, Lv Zheng, Rafael J. Wysocki, Len Brown
Cc: linux-kernel, linux-acpi, devel, Sudip Mukherjee
acpi_ns_get_secondary_object() can return NULL, and if it returns NULL
then we were dereferencing it while calling acpi_ds_execute_arguments().
Lets have a NULL check and return AE_NOT_EXIST.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
---
drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c
index e2ab59e..4bb8952 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/dsargs.c
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ acpi_ds_get_buffer_field_arguments(union acpi_operand_object *obj_desc)
/* Get the AML pointer (method object) and buffer_field node */
extra_desc = acpi_ns_get_secondary_object(obj_desc);
+ if (!extra_desc)
+ return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_NOT_EXIST);
+
node = obj_desc->buffer_field.node;
ACPI_DEBUG_EXEC(acpi_ut_display_init_pathname(ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER_FIELD,
--
1.9.1
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