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From: "Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, PPCML <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC: CHRP - fix possible NULL pointer dereference
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:43:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa79d98a0711222143r746d8789r1bff0cb7b7cd88a5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071123101646.63550945.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

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Here is updated version
---
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>

This patch does fix possible NULL pointer dereference
inside of strncmp() if of_get_property() failed.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
---

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 arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c |   13 +++++++++----
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c
index 5930626..da4e45e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ void chrp_show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m)
 	seq_printf(m, "machine\t\t: CHRP %s\n", model);
 
 	/* longtrail (goldengate) stuff */
-	if (!strncmp(model, "IBM,LongTrail", 13)) {
+	if (model && !strncmp(model, "IBM,LongTrail", 13)) {
 		/* VLSI VAS96011/12 `Golden Gate 2' */
 		/* Memory banks */
 		sdramen = (in_le32(gg2_pci_config_base + GG2_PCI_DRAM_CTRL)
@@ -203,15 +203,20 @@ static void __init sio_fixup_irq(const char *name, u8 device, u8 level,
 static void __init sio_init(void)
 {
 	struct device_node *root;
+	const char *model;
 
-	if ((root = of_find_node_by_path("/")) &&
-	    !strncmp(of_get_property(root, "model", NULL),
-			"IBM,LongTrail", 13)) {
+	root = of_find_node_by_path("/");
+	if (!root)
+		return;
+
+	model = of_get_property(root, "model", NULL);
+	if (model && !strncmp(model,"IBM,LongTrail", 13)) {
 		/* logical device 0 (KBC/Keyboard) */
 		sio_fixup_irq("keyboard", 0, 1, 2);
 		/* select logical device 1 (KBC/Mouse) */
 		sio_fixup_irq("mouse", 1, 12, 2);
 	}
+
 	of_node_put(root);
 }
 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-23  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-22 19:54 [PATCH] PPC: CHRP - fix possible NULL pointer dereference Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-11-22 23:16 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-11-23  4:23   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-11-23  5:43   ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]

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