Re: [PATCH] vTPM: Fix missing NULL check

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:43:21AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> From: "Hon Ching \\(Vicky\\) Lo" <honclo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> The current code passes the address of tpm_chip as the argument to
> dev_get_drvdata() without prior NULL check in
> tpm_ibmvtpm_get_desired_dma.  This resulted an oops during kernel
> boot when vTPM is enabled in Power partition configured in active
> memory sharing mode.
> 
> The vio_driver's get_desired_dma() is called before the probe(), which
> for vtpm is tpm_ibmvtpm_probe, and it's this latter function that
> initializes the driver and set data.  Attempting to get data before
> the probe() caused the problem.
> 
> This patch adds a NULL check to the tpm_ibmvtpm_get_desired_dma.
> 
> fixes: 9e0d39d8a6a0 ("tpm: Remove useless priv field in struct tpm_vendor_specific")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo <honclo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkine <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> Backport for v4.9. I asked to Vicky to test my backport so this should be OK.

Thanks for this, but next time can you give me a hint of what the git
commit id is for the patch in Linus's tree?  I had to go dig it out by
hand :(

greg k-h