[tip:irq/urgent] genirq: Prevent potential NULL dereference in irq_set_irq_wake()

From: tip-bot for Jesper Juhl
Date: Fri Jun 10 2011 - 04:58:33 EST


Commit-ID: 13863a66c9c8a663665445cf05d68de96ff31830
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/13863a66c9c8a663665445cf05d68de96ff31830
Author: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:14:58 +0200
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:53:42 +0200

genirq: Prevent potential NULL dereference in irq_set_irq_wake()

In kernel/irq/manage.c::irq_set_irq_wake() we call
irq_get_desc_buslock() which may return NULL, but the code
dereferences the result unconditionally.

irq_set_irq_wake() has lots of callers - I checked a few and I couldn't
find anything that guarantees that they won't call it with some input that
will cause irq_get_desc_buslock() to return NULL, so I think it's a good
thing to test and -EINVAL was the most sane error code in this situation
that I could think of.

Not all callers test the return value of irq_set_irq_wake(), but those
that do take != 0 to mean error as far as I can see, so they should be
fine. I guess those that don't test actually should, but that's a
different issue.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1106092300360.17868@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/irq/manage.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index d64bafb..0a7840ae 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -491,6 +491,9 @@ int irq_set_irq_wake(unsigned int irq, unsigned int on)
struct irq_desc *desc = irq_get_desc_buslock(irq, &flags);
int ret = 0;

+ if (!desc)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* wakeup-capable irqs can be shared between drivers that
* don't need to have the same sleep mode behaviors.
*/
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