linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 39/50] x86/mce/AMD: Make the init code more robust

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Message-Id: <20170804231553.453515052@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri,  4 Aug 2017 16:16:25 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 39/50] x86/mce/AMD: Make the init code more robust

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
@@ -573,6 +573,9 @@ static int threshold_create_bank(unsigne
 	const char *name = th_names[bank];
 	int err = 0;
 
+	if (!dev)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	if (is_shared_bank(bank)) {
 		nb = node_to_amd_nb(amd_get_nb_id(cpu));