Re: [PATCH] Be a bit defensive in quirk_nvidia_ck804() so we don'trisk dereferencing a NULL pdev.

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Dec 01 2006 - 20:00:45 EST


On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> pci_get_slot() may return NULL if nothing was found.
> quirk_nvidia_ck804() does not check the value returned from pci_get_slot(),
> so it may end up causing a NULL pointer deref.
>

Looks good. The possible NULL pointer is actually not at pci_dev_put,
but rather at pci_find_capability on the msi_ht_cap_enabled(pdev) call.

> diff --git a/drivers/pci/quirks.c b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> index 5b44838..d3dcbda 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> @@ -1741,6 +1741,8 @@ static void __devinit quirk_nvidia_ck804
> * a single one having MSI is enough to be sure that MSI are supported.
> */
> pdev = pci_get_slot(dev->bus, 0);
> + if (!pdev)
> + return;
> if (dev->subordinate && !msi_ht_cap_enabled(dev)
> && !msi_ht_cap_enabled(pdev)) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "PCI: MSI quirk detected. "
>

The check for dev->subordinate in the neighboring conditional can also be
removed.

David
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