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* [patch] mailbox: bcm-pdc: potential NULL dereference in pdc_shutdown()
@ 2016-08-04  5:30 Dan Carpenter
  2016-08-04 11:10 ` Rob (William) Rice
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2016-08-04  5:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jassi Brar, Rob Rice; +Cc: linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

We can't pass NULL pointers to pdc_ring_free() so I moved the check for
NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c
index cbe0c1e..c56d4d0 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c
@@ -1191,10 +1191,11 @@ static void pdc_shutdown(struct mbox_chan *chan)
 {
 	struct pdc_state *pdcs = chan->con_priv;
 
-	if (pdcs)
-		dev_dbg(&pdcs->pdev->dev,
-			"Shutdown mailbox channel for PDC %u", pdcs->pdc_idx);
+	if (!pdcs)
+		return;
 
+	dev_dbg(&pdcs->pdev->dev,
+		"Shutdown mailbox channel for PDC %u", pdcs->pdc_idx);
 	pdc_ring_free(pdcs);
 }
 

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* Re: [patch] mailbox: bcm-pdc: potential NULL dereference in pdc_shutdown()
  2016-08-04  5:30 [patch] mailbox: bcm-pdc: potential NULL dereference in pdc_shutdown() Dan Carpenter
@ 2016-08-04 11:10 ` Rob (William) Rice
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Rob (William) Rice @ 2016-08-04 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter, Jassi Brar, Rob Rice; +Cc: linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

Dan,

The fix looks good to me. Thanks for finding and fixing.

Rob

On 8/4/2016 1:30 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We can't pass NULL pointers to pdc_ring_free() so I moved the check for
> NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c
> index cbe0c1e..c56d4d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/bcm-pdc-mailbox.c
> @@ -1191,10 +1191,11 @@ static void pdc_shutdown(struct mbox_chan *chan)
>   {
>   	struct pdc_state *pdcs = chan->con_priv;
>   
> -	if (pdcs)
> -		dev_dbg(&pdcs->pdev->dev,
> -			"Shutdown mailbox channel for PDC %u", pdcs->pdc_idx);
> +	if (!pdcs)
> +		return;
>   
> +	dev_dbg(&pdcs->pdev->dev,
> +		"Shutdown mailbox channel for PDC %u", pdcs->pdc_idx);
>   	pdc_ring_free(pdcs);
>   }
>   

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