Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] libata: fix ata_host_alloc_pinfo()

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On Fri, 2021-08-06 at 16:42 +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference by testing that the ATA
> port
> info variable "pi".
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> index 61c762961ca8..ea8b91297f12 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> @@ -5458,7 +5458,7 @@ struct ata_host *ata_host_alloc_pinfo(struct
> device *dev,
>  		ap->link.flags |= pi->link_flags;
>  		ap->ops = pi->port_ops;

Hey, pi is used here

>  
> -		if (!host->ops && (pi->port_ops !=
> &ata_dummy_port_ops))
> +		if (!host->ops && pi && pi->port_ops !=
> &ata_dummy_port_ops)

So checking it here is just going to get us a load of static checker
reports.

James





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