This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: st-hva: Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences
to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
media-st-hva-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereferences.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0afac2ab5907387963c08b19d291c7157322775c
Author: Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed May 19 14:04:49 2021 +0200
media: st-hva: Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences
[ Upstream commit b7fdd208687ba59ebfb09b2199596471c63b69e3 ]
When ctx_id >= HVA_MAX_INSTANCES in hva_hw_its_irq_thread() it tries to
access fields of ctx that is NULL at that point. The patch gets rid of
these accesses.
Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Signed-off-by: Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-hw.c b/drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-hw.c
index f59811e27f51..6eeee5017fac 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-hw.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-hw.c
@@ -130,8 +130,7 @@ static irqreturn_t hva_hw_its_irq_thread(int irq, void *arg)
ctx_id = (hva->sts_reg & 0xFF00) >> 8;
if (ctx_id >= HVA_MAX_INSTANCES) {
dev_err(dev, "%s %s: bad context identifier: %d\n",
- ctx->name, __func__, ctx_id);
- ctx->hw_err = true;
+ HVA_PREFIX, __func__, ctx_id);
goto out;
}
