Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 May 2015 11:25:02 +0100 | From | Luis Henriques <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.2 108/221] spi: dw-mid: avoid potential NULL dereference |
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On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:16:39AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 3.2.69-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> > > commit c9dafb27c84412fe4b17c3b94cc4ffeef5df1833 upstream. > > When DMA descriptor allocation fails we should not try to assign any fields in > the bad descriptor. The patch adds the necessary checks for that. > > Fixes: 7063c0d942a1 (spi/dw_spi: add DMA support) > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> > [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> > --- > drivers/spi/spi-dw-mid.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > --- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-mid.c > +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-mid.c > @@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ static int mid_spi_dma_transfer(struct d > 1, > DMA_TO_DEVICE, > DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT | DMA_COMPL_SKIP_DEST_UNMAP); > + if (!txdesc) > + return NULL; > +
This backport doesn't look right to me as the function returns an int, not a pointer. OTOH, it seems like this return value is not checked anywhere, which is why I dropped this patch in the 3.16 kernel.
Cheers, -- Luís
> txdesc->callback = dw_spi_dma_done; > txdesc->callback_param = dws; > > @@ -177,6 +180,9 @@ static int mid_spi_dma_transfer(struct d > 1, > DMA_FROM_DEVICE, > DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT | DMA_COMPL_SKIP_DEST_UNMAP); > + if (!rxdesc) > + return NULL; > + > rxdesc->callback = dw_spi_dma_done; > rxdesc->callback_param = dws; > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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