From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>,
Jeeja KP <jeeja.kp@intel.com>,
Jayachandran B <jayachandran.b@intel.com>,
"Subhransu S . Prusty" <subhransu.s.prusty@intel.com>,
Dharageswari R <dharageswari.r@intel.com>,
Pardha Saradhi K <pardha.saradhi.kesapragada@intel.com>,
Yong Zhi <yong.zhi@intel.com>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: fix dereference before NULL check on ebus
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:32:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170419133249.ac3sdmn7kqjbxaii@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170419121613.12353-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 01:16:13PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> ebus is being NULL checked however it is being dereferenced
> earlier on the assignment bus = ebus_to_hbus(ebus). Fix this
> by moving the assignment to after the NULL check on ebus to
> avoid a NULL pointer dereference error.
>
ebus_to_hbus() doesn't dereference "ebus" it just uses it for pointer
math.
#define ebus_to_hbus(ebus) (&(ebus)->bus)
If you pass a NULL to there, it returns an offset starting from NULL but
it doesn't Oops.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-19 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-19 12:16 Colin King
2017-04-19 13:32 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2017-04-19 13:34 ` Colin Ian King
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