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authorPeter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>2013-09-18 22:10:00 +0100
committerJonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>2013-09-21 12:30:58 +0100
commitd66e0452bf6b0d98cd1a478918c92f2baffcb413 (patch)
tree3773d3ba757b5bc4135db1800355af1d273dc299 /drivers
parenta97dd06948e6ba1ff4fa2e046dd573b4f42a45c1 (diff)
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iio: Fix crash when scan_bytes is computed with active_scan_mask == NULL
if device has available_scan_masks set and the buffer is enabled without any scan_elements enabled, in a NULL pointer is dereferenced in iio_compute_scan_bytes() [ 18.993713] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 [ 19.002593] pgd = debd4000 [ 19.005432] [00000000] *pgd=9ebc0831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 [ 19.012329] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT ARM [ 19.017639] Modules linked in: [ 19.020843] CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.9.11-00036-g75c888a-dirty #207) [ 19.027587] PC is at _find_first_bit_le+0xc/0x2c [ 19.032440] LR is at iio_compute_scan_bytes+0x2c/0xf4 [ 19.037719] pc : [<c021dc60>] lr : [<c03198d0>] psr: 200d0013 [ 19.037719] sp : debd9ed0 ip : 00000000 fp : 000802bc [ 19.049713] r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : deb67250 [ 19.055206] r7 : 00000000 r6 : 00000000 r5 : 00000000 r4 : deb67000 [ 19.062011] r3 : de96ec00 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000004 r0 : 00000000 [ 19.068847] Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user [ 19.076324] Control: 10c5387d Table: 9ebd4019 DAC: 00000015 problem is the rollback code in iio_update_buffers(), old_mask may be NULL (e.g. on first call) I'm not too confident about the fix; works for me... Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net> Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
index e73033f3839a..5862c88ed5ad 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
@@ -528,8 +528,15 @@ int iio_update_buffers(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
* Note can only occur when adding a buffer.
*/
list_del(&insert_buffer->buffer_list);
- indio_dev->active_scan_mask = old_mask;
- success = -EINVAL;
+ if (old_mask) {
+ indio_dev->active_scan_mask = old_mask;
+ success = -EINVAL;
+ }
+ else {
+ kfree(compound_mask);
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto error_ret;
+ }
}
} else {
indio_dev->active_scan_mask = compound_mask;