From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>,
Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Christophe Prigent <christophe.prigent@intel.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: Do not crash if platform data is not populated
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:33:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5499A769.2000605@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fxie1x8.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
On 12/23/14 18:00, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Arend van Spriel<arend@broadcom.com> writes:
>
>> On 12/23/14 16:47, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 04:37:21PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>>> On 12/23/14 15:48, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>>>>> The driver looks for pdata->oob_irq_supported to find out if wowl can be
>>>>> supported. However, not all platforms populate pdata in which case we crash
>>>>> the kernel because of NULL pointer dereference.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Mika
>>>>
>>>> However, this was already reported by Dan Carpenter and I submitted a patch
>>>> for that a couple of days ago: "[PATCH 02/10] brcmfmac: Fix possible
>>>> dereference of NULL pointer." [1].
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Arend
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://mid.gmane.org/1419162233-19492-3-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com
>>>
>>> Oh, good. I didn't notice that one.
>>>
>>> Thanks for fixing it :)
>>>
>>> BTW, that patch seems to miss brcmf_ops_sdio_resume(), perhaps it is
>>> fixed in another patch?
>>
>> Aargh, a nice "BTW" this is as there is no other patch for the resume
>> code. Maybe I should ask Kalle to apply your patch instead of ours. If
>> it did not already got applied.
>
> I have been waiting for net-next to open so I haven't applied any -next
> patches yet. So if you want I can take Mika's patch as well. Just send a
> reply to your patch I should drop.
>
> And should this patch go to 3.19?
Yeah, the issue was introduced in 3.19 so that makes sense.
Regards,
Arend
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-23 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-23 14:48 [PATCH] brcmfmac: Do not crash if platform data is not populated Mika Westerberg
2014-12-23 15:37 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-12-23 15:47 ` Mika Westerberg
2014-12-23 15:59 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-12-23 17:00 ` Kalle Valo
2014-12-23 17:33 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2014-12-24 13:29 ` Kalle Valo
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