Re: [PATCH 3/4] tty/serial: at91: prevent null dereference intasklet function

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 07 2014 - 20:11:18 EST


On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:45:08AM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> From: Marek Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Something asks a tasklet to be scheduled when the uart port is closed.

What is that something? Shouldn't you track that down and find the real
problem here?

> Need to supress the kernel panic for now by checking if the port is NULL or
> not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Leilei Zhao <leilei.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.12
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> index c421d11b3d4c..6e68486c83cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> @@ -1360,6 +1360,10 @@ static void atmel_tasklet_func(unsigned long data)
> unsigned int status;
> unsigned int status_change;
>
> + if(!port->state || !port->state->port.tty)
> + /* uart has been closed */
> + return;

Did you really test this?

How about running it through checkpatch?

thanks,

greg k-h
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