NACK: [PATCH][serial-next] serial-uartlite: fix null pointer dereference on pointer port

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Tue Nov 13 2018 - 04:39:16 EST


On 13/11/2018 09:38, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Pointer port is dereferenced on port->private_data when assigning pointer
> pdata before port is null checked, leading to a potential null pointer
> dereference. Fix this by assigning pdata after the null pointer check on
> port.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1475434 ("Dereference before null check")
>
> Fixes: 3b209d253e7f ("serial-uartlite: Do not use static struct uart_driver out of probe()")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c b/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c
> index 4a7989df5ff5..0eff33cd9f24 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c
> @@ -715,10 +715,12 @@ static int ulite_release(struct device *dev)
> static int __maybe_unused ulite_suspend(struct device *dev)
> {
> struct uart_port *port = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> - struct uartlite_data *pdata = port->private_data;
>
> - if (port)
> + if (port) {
> + struct uartlite_data *pdata = port->private_data;
> +
> uart_suspend_port(pdata->ulite_uart_driver, port);
> + }
>
> return 0;
> }
>

Sorry for the noise, I sent the wrong fix. V2 coming soon.