Re: [PATCH] mmc: pxamci: fix potential oops

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Mon Jul 18 2016 - 07:19:54 EST


On 14 July 2016 at 17:05, Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> As reported by Dan in his report in [1], there is a potential NULL
> pointer derefence if these conditions are met :
> - there is no platform_data provided, ie. host->pdata = NULL
>
> Fix this by only using the platform data ro_invert when a gpio for
> read-only is provided by the platform data.
>
> This doesn't appear yet as every pxa board provides a platform_data, and
> calls pxa_set_mci_info() with a non NULL pointer.
>
> [1] [bug report] mmc: pxamci: fix card detect with slot-gpio API.
> The commit fd546ee6a7dc ("mmc: pxamci: fix card detect with slot-gpio
> API") from Sep 26, 2015, leads to the following static checker warning:
>
> drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c:809 pxamci_probe()
> warn: variable dereferenced before check 'host->pdata' (see line 798)
>
> Fixes: fd546ee6a7dc ("mmc: pxamci: fix card detect with slot-gpio API")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied for fixes!

Kind regards
Uffe

> ---
> drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c | 16 +++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c
> index 86fac3e86833..c763b404510f 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c
> @@ -789,14 +789,16 @@ static int pxamci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> gpio_direction_output(gpio_power,
> host->pdata->gpio_power_invert);
> }
> - if (gpio_is_valid(gpio_ro))
> + if (gpio_is_valid(gpio_ro)) {
> ret = mmc_gpio_request_ro(mmc, gpio_ro);
> - if (ret) {
> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed requesting gpio_ro %d\n", gpio_ro);
> - goto out;
> - } else {
> - mmc->caps2 |= host->pdata->gpio_card_ro_invert ?
> - 0 : MMC_CAP2_RO_ACTIVE_HIGH;
> + if (ret) {
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed requesting gpio_ro %d\n",
> + gpio_ro);
> + goto out;
> + } else {
> + mmc->caps2 |= host->pdata->gpio_card_ro_invert ?
> + 0 : MMC_CAP2_RO_ACTIVE_HIGH;
> + }
> }
>
> if (gpio_is_valid(gpio_cd))
> --
> 2.1.4
>