linux-kernel - [PATCH for v4.9 LTS 01/87] x86/mce/AMD: Make the init code more robust

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Date:   Sat, 15 Jul 2017 01:25:56 +0000
From:   "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH for v4.9 LTS 01/87] x86/mce/AMD: Make the init code more
 robust

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

[ Upstream commit 0dad3a3014a0b9e72521ff44f17e0054f43dcdea ]

If mce_device_init() fails then the mce device pointer is NULL and the
AMD mce code happily dereferences it.

Add a sanity check.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Reported-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
index 3dfca7b302dc..a5b47c1361a0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
@@ -955,6 +955,9 @@ static int threshold_create_bank(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int bank)
 	const char *name = get_name(bank, NULL);
 	int err = 0;
 
+	if (!dev)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	if (is_shared_bank(bank)) {
 		nb = node_to_amd_nb(amd_get_nb_id(cpu));
 
-- 
2.11.0