From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fec: ptp: fix NULL pointer dereference if ptp_clock is not set Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:48:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20141022.174841.909151462884445312.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1413988475-6565-1-git-send-email-p.zabel@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: b45643@freescale.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: p.zabel@pengutronix.de Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:33590 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933237AbaJVVsp (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:48:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1413988475-6565-1-git-send-email-p.zabel@pengutronix.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Philipp Zabel Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:34:35 +0200 > Since commit 278d24047891 (net: fec: ptp: Enable PPS output based on ptp clock) > fec_enet_interrupt calls fec_ptp_check_pps_event unconditionally, which calls > into ptp_clock_event. If fep->ptp_clock is NULL, ptp_clock_event tries to > dereference the NULL pointer. > Since on i.MX53 fep->bufdesc_ex is not set, fec_ptp_init is never called, > and fep->ptp_clock is NULL, which reliably causes a kernel panic. > > This patch adds a check for fep->ptp_clock == NULL in fec_enet_interrupt. > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel Applied, thank you.