Re: [PATCH] clk: fix possible null pointer dereference

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Mon Jan 05 2015 - 14:34:39 EST


On 01/05/2015 08:04 AM, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> The commit 646cafc6 (clk: Change clk_ops->determine_rate to
> return a clk_hw as the best parent) opens a possibility for
> null pointer dereference, fix this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yep. Hopefully we can clean this all up soon.

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/clk/clk.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index f4963b7..d48ac71 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ static struct clk *clk_calc_new_rates(struct clk *clk, unsigned long rate)
> new_rate = clk->ops->determine_rate(clk->hw, rate,
> &best_parent_rate,
> &parent_hw);
> - parent = parent_hw->clk;
> + parent = parent_hw ? parent_hw->clk : NULL;
> } else if (clk->ops->round_rate) {
> new_rate = clk->ops->round_rate(clk->hw, rate,
> &best_parent_rate);


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