[PATCH 1/2] gpiolib: Fix NULL pointer deference

Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2016-06-03T17:10:45Z

Under some circumstances, a gpiochip might be half cleaned from the
gpio_device list.

This patch makes sure that the chip pointer is still valid, before
calling the match function.

[ 104.088296] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000090
[ 104.089772] IP: [<ffffffff813d2045>] of_gpiochip_find_and_xlate+0x15/0x80
[ 104.128273] Call Trace:
[ 104.129802] [<ffffffff813d2030>] ? of_parse_own_gpio+0x1f0/0x1f0
[ 104.131353] [<ffffffff813cd910>] gpiochip_find+0x60/0x90
[ 104.132868] [<ffffffff813d21ba>] of_get_named_gpiod_flags+0x9a/0x120
...
[ 104.141586] [<ffffffff8163d12b>] gpio_led_probe+0x11b/0x360

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
---

We might want to cc: stable on these two patches

drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index d407f904a31c..0626cc96744b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ struct gpio_chip *gpiochip_find(void *data,

spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);
list_for_each_entry(gdev, &gpio_devices, list)
- if (match(gdev->chip, data))
+ if (gdev->chip && match(gdev->chip, data))
break;

/* No match? */
--
2.8.1