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

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:04:11 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     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, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][serial-next] serial: 8250: don't dereference em485 until
 it has been null checked

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 05:58:15PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> 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")

I don't understand which tree this commit is from.  I have it fetched
but when I do a git log on drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c then I
don't see it.  I have today's linux-next.

> 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)

I'm pretty sure "t" isn't ever NULL.

regards,
dan carpenter