Re: [PATCH] ps3-vuart: BUG_ON on null drv before dereferencing it on dev_dbg

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Colin,

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
> On the unlikely event that drv is null, the current code will
> perform a null pointer dereference with it when printing a dev_dbg
> message.  Instead, the BUG_ON check on drv should be performed
> before we emit the dev_dbg message.

What about just removing the BUG_ON()?

The system will crash anyway, providing a backtrace.

> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c b/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c
> index d6db822..632701a 100644
> --- a/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c
> +++ b/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c
> @@ -1000,12 +1000,11 @@ static int ps3_vuart_probe(struct ps3_system_bus_device *dev)
>         dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d\n", __func__, __LINE__);
>
>         drv = ps3_system_bus_dev_to_vuart_drv(dev);
> +       BUG_ON(!drv);
>
>         dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d: (%s)\n", __func__, __LINE__,
>                 drv->core.core.name);
>
> -       BUG_ON(!drv);
> -
>         if (dev->port_number >= PORT_COUNT) {
>                 BUG();
>                 return -EINVAL;


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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