Re: [patch] sh: clkfwk: potential null deref in debug code

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Hi Dan

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> This function is designed to accept a NULL for "best_freq" but the
> debug code dereferences it unconditionally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Btw.  Smatch complains that "best" could NULL as well, but I don't
> know if actually that's possible so I left it as is.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/sh/clk/core.c b/drivers/sh/clk/core.c
> index 5f63c3b..dee971c 100644
> --- a/drivers/sh/clk/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/sh/clk/core.c
> @@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ long clk_round_parent(struct clk *clk, unsigned long target,
>  
>  		pr_debug("%u / %lu = %lu, / %lu = %lu, best %lu, parent %u\n",
>  			 freq->frequency, div, freq_high, div + 1, freq_low,
> -			 *best_freq, best->frequency);
> +			 best_freq ? *best_freq : -1, best->frequency);

What about another occasion of dereferencing best_freq at the top of the 
clk_round_parent() function:

	if (!parent) {
		*parent_freq = 0;
		*best_freq = clk_round_rate(clk, target);
		return abs(target - *best_freq);
	}

?

Thanks
Guennadi
---
Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/
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