Re: [PATCH] PPC: CHRP - fix possible NULL pointer dereference

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Fri Nov 23 2007 - 00:43:20 EST


Here is updated version
---
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>

This patch does fix possible NULL pointer dereference
inside of strncmp() if of_get_property() failed.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c
index 5930626..da4e45e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ void chrp_show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m)
seq_printf(m, "machine\t\t: CHRP %s\n", model);

/* longtrail (goldengate) stuff */
- if (!strncmp(model, "IBM,LongTrail", 13)) {
+ if (model && !strncmp(model, "IBM,LongTrail", 13)) {
/* VLSI VAS96011/12 `Golden Gate 2' */
/* Memory banks */
sdramen = (in_le32(gg2_pci_config_base + GG2_PCI_DRAM_CTRL)
@@ -203,15 +203,20 @@ static void __init sio_fixup_irq(const char *name, u8 device, u8 level,
static void __init sio_init(void)
{
struct device_node *root;
+ const char *model;

- if ((root = of_find_node_by_path("/")) &&
- !strncmp(of_get_property(root, "model", NULL),
- "IBM,LongTrail", 13)) {
+ root = of_find_node_by_path("/");
+ if (!root)
+ return;
+
+ model = of_get_property(root, "model", NULL);
+ if (model && !strncmp(model,"IBM,LongTrail", 13)) {
/* logical device 0 (KBC/Keyboard) */
sio_fixup_irq("keyboard", 0, 1, 2);
/* select logical device 1 (KBC/Mouse) */
sio_fixup_irq("mouse", 1, 12, 2);
}
+
of_node_put(root);
}