[tip:x86/urgent] x86/hpet: Prevent potential NULL pointer dereference

From: tip-bot for Aditya Pakki
Date: Thu Mar 21 2019 - 07:30:00 EST


Commit-ID: 2e84f116afca3719c9d0a1a78b47b48f75fd5724
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/2e84f116afca3719c9d0a1a78b47b48f75fd5724
Author: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 21:19:56 -0500
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:24:38 +0100

x86/hpet: Prevent potential NULL pointer dereference

hpet_virt_address may be NULL when ioremap_nocache fail, but the code lacks
a check.

Add a check to prevent NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kjlu@xxxxxxx
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319021958.17275-1-pakki001@xxxxxxx

---
arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index dfd3aca82c61..fb32925a2e62 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -905,6 +905,8 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void)
return 0;

hpet_set_mapping();
+ if (!hpet_virt_address)
+ return 0;

/*
* Read the period and check for a sane value: