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Message-Id: <1326483982-13610-1-git-send-email-mans.rullgard@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:46:22 +0000
From: Mans Rullgard <mans.rullgard@...aro.org>
To: Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
patches@...aro.org, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@...aro.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Boojin Kim <boojin.kim@...sung.com>,
Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: pl330: fix null pointer dereference in pl330_chan_ctrl()
This fixes the thrd->req_running field being accessed before thrd
is checked for null. The error was introduced in abb959f.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans.rullgard@...aro.org>
---
drivers/dma/pl330.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/pl330.c b/drivers/dma/pl330.c
index 3a6e042..cb3e597 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/pl330.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/pl330.c
@@ -1568,12 +1568,13 @@ static int pl330_chan_ctrl(void *ch_id, enum pl330_chan_op op)
struct pl330_thread *thrd = ch_id;
struct pl330_dmac *pl330;
unsigned long flags;
- int ret = 0, active = thrd->req_running;
+ int ret = 0, active;
if (!thrd || thrd->free || thrd->dmac->state == DYING)
return -EINVAL;
pl330 = thrd->dmac;
+ active = thrd->req_running;
spin_lock_irqsave(&pl330->lock, flags);
--
1.7.8.3
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