This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: vchiq_core: handle NULL result of find_service_by_handle
to the 5.16-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:
staging-vchiq_core-handle-null-result-of-find_servic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 37d969a0401f4f296af4f6a04da25a8b20c19aef
Author: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Jan 23 21:02:22 2022 +0100
staging: vchiq_core: handle NULL result of find_service_by_handle
[ Upstream commit ca225857faf237234d2fffe5d1919467dfadd822 ]
In case of an invalid handle the function find_servive_by_handle
returns NULL. So take care of this and avoid a NULL pointer dereference.
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1642968143-19281-18-git-send-email-stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
index 7fe20d4b7ba2..b7295236671c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c
@@ -2306,6 +2306,9 @@ void vchiq_msg_queue_push(unsigned int handle, struct vchiq_header *header)
struct vchiq_service *service = find_service_by_handle(handle);
int pos;
+ if (!service)
+ return;
+
while (service->msg_queue_write == service->msg_queue_read +
VCHIQ_MAX_SLOTS) {
if (wait_for_completion_interruptible(&service->msg_queue_pop))
@@ -2326,6 +2329,9 @@ struct vchiq_header *vchiq_msg_hold(unsigned int handle)
struct vchiq_header *header;
int pos;
+ if (!service)
+ return NULL;
+
if (service->msg_queue_write == service->msg_queue_read)
return NULL;
