linux-kernel - [PATCH] arch: tile: fix null pointer dereference on pt

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Date:	Sun,  1 Mar 2015 20:12:26 +0000
From:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] arch: tile: fix null pointer dereference on pt_regs pointer

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Cppcheck reports the following issue:
[arch/tile/kernel/stack.c:116]: (error) Possible null
  pointer dereference: p

In this case, on reporting on an odd fault, p is set to NULL
and immediately afterwords p is dereferenced iff
!kbt->profile is false.  Rather than doing this check just
return NULL rather than falling through to the potential
null pointer dereference (since the original intentional
outcome would be to return NULL anyhow) for this odd fault
case.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 arch/tile/kernel/stack.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/stack.c b/arch/tile/kernel/stack.c
index 7ff5afd..2d55c04 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/stack.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/stack.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static struct pt_regs *valid_fault_handler(struct KBacktraceIterator* kbt)
 	} else if (kbt->verbose) {
 		pr_err("  (odd fault: pc %#lx, sp %#lx, ex1 %#lx?)\n",
 		       p->pc, p->sp, p->ex1);
-		p = NULL;
+		return NULL;
 	}
 	if (!kbt->profile || ((1ULL << p->faultnum) & QUEUED_INTERRUPTS) == 0)
 		return p;
-- 
2.1.4

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