From: Mukund Mittal <mmittal@xxxxxx> OMAP: timer-gp: Fix for null pointer dereferencing issue There was a null pointer dereferencing issue for gpt pointer. It was checked and an error was printed but execution was not terminated. Fixed by calling function BUG(). Signed-off-by: Mukund Mittal <mmittal@xxxxxx> --- arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer-gp.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Index: linux-omap-2.6/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer-gp.c =================================================================== --- linux-omap-2.6.orig/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer-gp.c +++ linux-omap-2.6/arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer-gp.c @@ -205,14 +205,13 @@ static void __init omap2_gp_clocksource_ { static struct omap_dm_timer *gpt; u32 tick_rate, tick_period; - static char err1[] __initdata = KERN_ERR - "%s: failed to request dm-timer\n"; - static char err2[] __initdata = KERN_ERR - "%s: can't register clocksource!\n"; gpt = omap_dm_timer_request(); - if (!gpt) - printk(err1, clocksource_gpt.name); + if (!gpt) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to request dm-timer\n", + clocksource_gpt.name); + BUG(); + } gpt_clocksource = gpt; omap_dm_timer_set_source(gpt, OMAP_TIMER_SRC_SYS_CLK); @@ -224,7 +223,8 @@ static void __init omap2_gp_clocksource_ clocksource_gpt.mult = clocksource_khz2mult(tick_rate/1000, clocksource_gpt.shift); if (clocksource_register(&clocksource_gpt)) - printk(err2, clocksource_gpt.name); + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: can't register clocksource!\n", + clocksource_gpt.name); } #endif -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html