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SubjectRe: [PATCH] thermal: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue
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On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 21:59 +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> Cooling stats variable inside thermal_cooling_device_stats_update()
> can get NULL. We should add a NULL check on stat inside for sanity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> index a6f371f..f52708f 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> @@ -754,6 +754,9 @@ void thermal_cooling_device_stats_update(struct
> thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
> {
> struct cooling_dev_stats *stats = cdev->stats;
>
> + if (!stats)
> + return;
> +
May I know in which case stats can be NULL?
The only possibility I can see is that cdev->ops->get_max_state() fails
in cooling_device_stats_setup(), right?

thanks,
rui

> spin_lock(&stats->lock);
>
> if (stats->state == new_state)

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