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From: mturquette@linaro.org (Mike Turquette)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] clk: fix new_parent dereference before null check
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:59:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130830195909.10934.38599@quantum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377774651-5394-1-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com>

Quoting James Hogan (2013-08-29 04:10:51)
> Commit 71472c0 (clk: add support for clock reparent on set_rate) added a
> dereference of the new_parent pointer in clk_reparent(), but as detected
> by smatch clk_reparent() later checks whether new_parent is NULL.
> 
> The dereference was in order to clear the new parent's new_child pointer
> to avoid duplicate POST_RATE_CHANGE notifications, so clearly isn't
> necessary if the new parent is NULL, so move it inside the "if
> (new_parent)" block.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org

Thanks for the quick fix. I've pulled this into clk-next.

Regards,
Mike

> ---
>  drivers/clk/clk.c | 13 +++++++------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index 2db08c0..02e75d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -1108,16 +1108,17 @@ static u8 clk_fetch_parent_index(struct clk *clk, struct clk *parent)
>  
>  static void clk_reparent(struct clk *clk, struct clk *new_parent)
>  {
> -       /* avoid duplicate POST_RATE_CHANGE notifications */
> -       if (new_parent->new_child == clk)
> -               new_parent->new_child = NULL;
> -
>         hlist_del(&clk->child_node);
>  
> -       if (new_parent)
> +       if (new_parent) {
> +               /* avoid duplicate POST_RATE_CHANGE notifications */
> +               if (new_parent->new_child == clk)
> +                       new_parent->new_child = NULL;
> +
>                 hlist_add_head(&clk->child_node, &new_parent->children);
> -       else
> +       } else {
>                 hlist_add_head(&clk->child_node, &clk_orphan_list);
> +       }
>  
>         clk->parent = new_parent;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.8.1.2

      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-30 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-29 11:10 [PATCH] clk: fix new_parent dereference before null check James Hogan
2013-08-30 19:59 ` Mike Turquette [this message]

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