linux-kernel - [PATCH][serial-next] serial: 8250: don't dereference em485 until it has been null checked

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:58:15 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Phil Elwell <phil@...pberrypi.org>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
        Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
        Thor Thayer <tthayer@...nsource.altera.com>,
        Rafael Gago <rafael.gago@...il.com>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][serial-next] serial: 8250: don't dereference em485 until it has been null checked

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

Currently, the pointer em485 is dereferenced to get p and then later
em485 is checked to see if it is null before calling __start_tx. In
the case where em485 is null, we get a null pointer dereference. Fix
this by moving the deference and the associated spinlock/unlocks on
p to the code block where em485 is known to be not null.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#14555001 ("Dereference before null check")

Fixes 6e0a5de2136b ("serial: 8250: Use hrtimers for rs485 delays")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 4726aa276968..c20b581313f0 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1606,18 +1606,18 @@ static inline void start_tx_rs485(struct uart_port *port)
 static enum hrtimer_restart serial8250_em485_handle_start_tx(struct hrtimer *t)
 {
 	struct uart_8250_em485 *em485;
-	struct uart_8250_port *p;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	em485 = container_of(t, struct uart_8250_em485, start_tx_timer);
-	p = em485->port;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&p->port.lock, flags);
 	if (em485 &&
 	    em485->active_timer == &em485->start_tx_timer) {
+		struct uart_8250_port *p = em485->port;
+
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&p->port.lock, flags);
 		__start_tx(&p->port);
 		em485->active_timer = NULL;
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->port.lock, flags);
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->port.lock, flags);
 	return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
 }
 
-- 
2.14.1