From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: borislav.petkov@amd.com
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: intel_cacheinfo: potential NULL dereference?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:18:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C209C15.9090604@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
commit 9350f982 changed the code so it looks like:
static ssize_t store_cache_disable(struct _cpuid4_info *this_leaf,
const char *buf, size_t count,
unsigned int slot)
{
struct pci_dev *dev = this_leaf->l3->dev; <<1>>
int cpu = cpumask_first(to_cpumask(this_leaf->shared_cpu_map));
unsigned long val = 0;
#define SUBCACHE_MASK (3UL << 20)
#define SUBCACHE_INDEX 0xfff
if (!this_leaf->l3 || !this_leaf->l3->can_disable) <<2>>
return -EINVAL;
Stanse found, that this_leaf->l3 is dereferenced at <<1>>, but checked
for being NULL at <<2>>. Is the check superfluous or the dev assignment
should go after the check?
thanks,
--
js
next reply other threads:[~2010-06-22 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-22 11:18 Jiri Slaby [this message]
2010-06-22 11:20 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-06-22 13:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-06-22 14:11 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-06-22 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-22 19:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-06-22 19:45 ` [PATCH -v2] x86, cacheinfo: Carve out L3 cache slot accessors Borislav Petkov
2010-06-22 15:15 ` intel_cacheinfo: potential NULL dereference? H. Peter Anvin
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