linux-kernel - [patch] gpio: potential null dereference

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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:25:20 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@...ia.com>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Daniel Glöckner <dg@...ix.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] gpio: potential null dereference

Smatch found a potential null dereference in gpio_setup_irq().  The 
"pdesc" variable is allocated with idr_find() that can return NULL.  If
gpio_setup_irq() is called with 0 as gpio_flags and "pdesc" is null, it
would OOPs here.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 76be229..eb0c3fe 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ static int gpio_setup_irq(struct gpio_desc *desc, struct device *dev,
 	return 0;
 
 free_sd:
-	sysfs_put(pdesc->value_sd);
+	if (pdesc)
+		sysfs_put(pdesc->value_sd);
 free_id:
 	idr_remove(&pdesc_idr, id);
 	desc->flags &= GPIO_FLAGS_MASK;
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