From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
Thor Thayer <tthayer@opensource.altera.com>,
Rafael Gago <rafael.gago@gmail.com>,
David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][serial-next] serial: 8250: don't dereference em485 until it has been null checked
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:58:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170829165815.23429-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (raw)
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Currently, the pointer em485 is dereferenced to get p and then later
em485 is checked to see if it is null before calling __start_tx. In
the case where em485 is null, we get a null pointer dereference. Fix
this by moving the deference and the associated spinlock/unlocks on
p to the code block where em485 is known to be not null.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#14555001 ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes 6e0a5de2136b ("serial: 8250: Use hrtimers for rs485 delays")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 4726aa276968..c20b581313f0 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1606,18 +1606,18 @@ static inline void start_tx_rs485(struct uart_port *port)
static enum hrtimer_restart serial8250_em485_handle_start_tx(struct hrtimer *t)
{
struct uart_8250_em485 *em485;
- struct uart_8250_port *p;
unsigned long flags;
em485 = container_of(t, struct uart_8250_em485, start_tx_timer);
- p = em485->port;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&p->port.lock, flags);
if (em485 &&
em485->active_timer == &em485->start_tx_timer) {
+ struct uart_8250_port *p = em485->port;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&p->port.lock, flags);
__start_tx(&p->port);
em485->active_timer = NULL;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->port.lock, flags);
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->port.lock, flags);
return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
}
--
2.14.1
next reply other threads:[~2017-08-29 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-29 16:58 Colin King [this message]
2017-08-29 19:57 ` [PATCH][serial-next] serial: 8250: don't dereference em485 until it has been null checked Andy Shevchenko
2017-08-29 20:04 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-29 20:22 ` Andy Shevchenko
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