On 07/15/2012 10:40 PM, Hartmut Knaack wrote: > This patch adds some checks prior to accessing device attribute lists in industrialio-event.c. > > Signed-off-by: Harmut Knaack <knaack.h@xxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c > index b49059d..fe68e90 100644 > --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c > +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c > @@ -425,11 +425,13 @@ int iio_device_register_eventset(struct iio_dev *indio_dev) > *attrcount_orig); > attrn = attrcount_orig; > /* Add all elements from the list. */ > - list_for_each_entry(p, > - &indio_dev->event_interface->dev_attr_list, > - l) > - indio_dev->event_interface->group.attrs[attrn++] = > - &p->dev_attr.attr; > + if (indio_dev->event_interface->dev_attr_list.next) next should never be NULL. If it is this means that INIT_LIST_HEAD has not been called on the list and the correct fix is to make sure that it is called. > + list_for_each_entry(p, > + &indio_dev->event_interface->dev_attr_list, > + l) > + indio_dev->event_interface->group.attrs[attrn++] = > + &p->dev_attr.attr; > + > indio_dev->groups[indio_dev->groupcounter++] = > &indio_dev->event_interface->group; > > @@ -447,7 +449,9 @@ void iio_device_unregister_eventset(struct iio_dev *indio_dev) > { > if (indio_dev->event_interface == NULL) > return; > - __iio_remove_event_config_attrs(indio_dev); > - kfree(indio_dev->event_interface->group.attrs); > + if (indio_dev->event_interface->dev_attr_list.next) > + __iio_remove_event_config_attrs(indio_dev); Same here. > + if (indio_dev->event_interface->group.attrs) > + kfree(indio_dev->event_interface->group.attrs); kfree does a check for NULL itself. > kfree(indio_dev->event_interface); > } > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html