Re: [PATCH 1/3] wlcore/wl12xx: spi: fix NULL pointer dereference (Oops)

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Hi Grygorii,

On 12/23/2015 12:08 PM, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
On 12/23/2015 10:35 AM, Uri Mashiach wrote:
The power function uses a consumer regulator access to update the WiFi
enable GPIO value.

Fix the below Oops when trying to modprobe wlcore_spi.
The oops occurs because the wl1271_power_{off,on}()
function doesn't check the power() function pointer.

[   23.401447] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 00000000
[   23.409954] pgd = c0004000
[   23.412922] [00000000] *pgd=00000000
[   23.416693] Internal error: Oops: 80000007 [#1] SMP ARM
[   23.422168] Modules linked in: wl12xx wlcore mac80211 cfg80211
musb_dsps musb_hdrc usbcore usb_common snd_soc_simple_card evdev joydev
omap_rng wlcore_spi snd_soc_tlv320aic23_i2c rng_core snd_soc_tlv320aic23
c_can_platform c_can can_dev snd_soc_davinci_mcasp snd_soc_edma
snd_soc_omap omap_wdt musb_am335x cpufreq_dt thermal_sys hwmon
[   23.453253] CPU: 0 PID: 36 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted
4.2.0-00002-g951efee-dirty #233
[   23.461720] Hardware name: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree)
[   23.468123] Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func
[   23.473690] task: de32efc0 ti: de4ee000 task.ti: de4ee000
[   23.479341] PC is at 0x0
[   23.482112] LR is at wl12xx_set_power_on+0x28/0x124 [wlcore]

Why can't you just add proper check in wl1271_power_on/wl1271_power_off() instead?


Will be done in v2.

Thanks,
Uri
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