linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/8] drivers:misc: ti-st: fail-safe on wrong pkt type

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:38:56 -0500
From:	<pavan_savoy@...com>
To:	<gregkh@...e.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	<pavan_savoy@...y.com>, Vijay Badawadagi <bvijay@...com>,
	Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@...com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/8] drivers:misc: ti-st: fail-safe on wrong pkt type

From: Vijay Badawadagi <bvijay@...com>

Texas Instrument's shared transport driver interpret incoming data from the
UART based on the various protocol drivers registered to the driver such as
btwilink driver or FM or GPS driver which provide logical channel IDs.

In case of bad-behavior from chip such as HCI Event response for a GPS command
or a HCI Event (h/w error event) for a FM response & In case of bad-behavior
from UART driver such as dropping data bytes a fail-safe is required to avoid
kernel panic.

Change-Id: I4a0b4b3152a27830ae85f986f5f2de922f007cd2
Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@...com>
Signed-off-by: Vijay Badawadagi <bvijay@...com>
---
 drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
index c8e335d..1f973ce 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c
@@ -338,6 +338,12 @@ void st_int_recv(void *disc_data,
 			/* Unknow packet? */
 		default:
 			type = *ptr;
+			if (st_gdata->list[type] == NULL) {
+				pr_err("chip/interface misbehavior dropping"
+					" frame starting with 0x%02x", type);
+				goto done;
+
+			}
 			st_gdata->rx_skb = alloc_skb(
 					st_gdata->list[type]->max_frame_size,
 					GFP_ATOMIC);
@@ -354,6 +360,7 @@ void st_int_recv(void *disc_data,
 		ptr++;
 		count--;
 	}
+done:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&st_gdata->lock, flags);
 	pr_debug("done %s", __func__);
 	return;
-- 
1.7.4.1

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