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* intel_cacheinfo: potential NULL dereference?
@ 2010-06-22 11:18 Jiri Slaby
  2010-06-22 11:20 ` Jiri Slaby
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Jiri Slaby @ 2010-06-22 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: borislav.petkov; +Cc: H. Peter Anvin, x86, Linux kernel mailing list

Hi,

commit 9350f982 changed the code so it looks like:
static ssize_t store_cache_disable(struct _cpuid4_info *this_leaf,
                                   const char *buf, size_t count,
                                   unsigned int slot)
{
        struct pci_dev *dev = this_leaf->l3->dev;   <<1>>
        int cpu = cpumask_first(to_cpumask(this_leaf->shared_cpu_map));
        unsigned long val = 0;

#define SUBCACHE_MASK   (3UL << 20)
#define SUBCACHE_INDEX  0xfff

        if (!this_leaf->l3 || !this_leaf->l3->can_disable)  <<2>>
                return -EINVAL;

Stanse found, that this_leaf->l3 is dereferenced at <<1>>, but checked
for being NULL at <<2>>. Is the check superfluous or the dev assignment
should go after the check?

thanks,
--
js

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2010-06-22 11:18 intel_cacheinfo: potential NULL dereference? Jiri Slaby
2010-06-22 11:20 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-06-22 13:08   ` Borislav Petkov
2010-06-22 14:11     ` Jiri Slaby
2010-06-22 17:09       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-22 19:19         ` Borislav Petkov
2010-06-22 19:45           ` [PATCH -v2] x86, cacheinfo: Carve out L3 cache slot accessors Borislav Petkov
2010-06-22 15:15   ` intel_cacheinfo: potential NULL dereference? H. Peter Anvin

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