From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: lenb@kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
khilman@ti.com, Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
g.trinabh@gmail.com, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2][RESEND] cpuidle: Add checks to avoid NULL pointer dereference
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:30:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F9E38A7.9030209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The existing check for dev == NULL in __cpuidle_register_device() is rendered
useless because dev is dereferenced before the check itself. Moreover,
correctly speaking, it is the job of the callers of this function, i.e.,
cpuidle_register_device() & cpuidle_enable_device() (which also happen to be
exported functions) to ensure that __cpuidle_register_device() is called with
a non-NULL dev.
So add the necessary dev == NULL checks in the two callers and remove the
(useless) check from __cpuidle_register_device().
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
---
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index 87411ce..eae2f11 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ int cpuidle_enable_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
int ret, i;
struct cpuidle_driver *drv = cpuidle_get_driver();
+ if (!dev)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (dev->enabled)
return 0;
if (!drv || !cpuidle_curr_governor)
@@ -375,8 +378,6 @@ static int __cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device((unsigned long)dev->cpu);
struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_driver = cpuidle_get_driver();
- if (!dev)
- return -EINVAL;
if (!try_module_get(cpuidle_driver->owner))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -401,6 +402,9 @@ int cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
{
int ret;
+ if (!dev)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
mutex_lock(&cpuidle_lock);
if ((ret = __cpuidle_register_device(dev))) {
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