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Message-Id: <1444330858-5508-1-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:	Thu,  8 Oct 2015 20:00:58 +0100
From:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null

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

pi_buff is being memset before it is sanity checked. Move the
memset after the null pi_buff sanity check to avoid an oops.

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

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c
index eedb645..94a6e56 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c
@@ -142,11 +142,11 @@ int hvcs_get_partner_info(uint32_t unit_address, struct list_head *head,
 	int more = 1;
 	int retval;
 
-	memset(pi_buff, 0x00, PAGE_SIZE);
 	/* invalid parameters */
 	if (!head || !pi_buff)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	memset(pi_buff, 0x00, PAGE_SIZE);
 	last_p_partition_ID = last_p_unit_address = ~0UL;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(head);
 
-- 
2.5.0

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