Re: [PATCH][BUG] Fix possible NULL pointer access in 8250 serial driver

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:28:37 +0900 izumi <izumi2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Russell King wrote:
> 
> > NAK.  This means that you change the list of ports available on the
> > machine to be limited to only those which are currently open.  Utterly
> > useless for debugging, where you normally want people to dump the
> > contents of /proc/tty/driver/*.
> > 
> > The original patch was better.
> > 
> 
>    Is the original patch sufficient?  or is there anything we should 
> correct?
> 

Would it be better to do something like

--- a/drivers/serial/serial_core.c~a
+++ a/drivers/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -1686,9 +1686,12 @@ static int uart_line_info(char *buf, str
 		pm_state = state->pm_state;
 		if (pm_state)
 			uart_change_pm(state, 0);
-		spin_lock_irq(&port->lock);
-		status = port->ops->get_mctrl(port);
-		spin_unlock_irq(&port->lock);
+		status = 0;
+		if (port->info) {
+			spin_lock_irq(&port->lock);
+			status = port->ops->get_mctrl(port);
+			spin_unlock_irq(&port->lock);
+		}
 		if (pm_state)
 			uart_change_pm(state, pm_state);
 		mutex_unlock(&state->mutex);
_

so that a) we treat all uart types in the same way and b) the same problem
doesn't occur later with some other driver which is assuming an opened
device in its ->get_mctrl() handler?

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