This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ACPI: extlog: fix NULL pointer dereference check to the 6.6-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: acpi-extlog-fix-null-pointer-dereference-check.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 92090bc22df322dbf131afe80e795ba85b16ff31 Author: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Dec 4 13:00:37 2023 -0500 ACPI: extlog: fix NULL pointer dereference check [ Upstream commit 72d9b9747e78979510e9aafdd32eb99c7aa30dd1 ] The gcc plugin -fanalyzer [1] tries to detect various patterns of incorrect behaviour. The tool reports: drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c: In function ‘extlog_exit’: drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c:307:12: warning: check of ‘extlog_l1_addr’ for NULL after already dereferencing it [-Wanalyzer-deref-before-check] | | 306 | ((struct extlog_l1_head *)extlog_l1_addr)->flags &= ~FLAG_OS_OPTIN; | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~ | | | | | (1) pointer ‘extlog_l1_addr’ is dereferenced here | 307 | if (extlog_l1_addr) | | ~ | | | | | (2) pointer ‘extlog_l1_addr’ is checked for NULL here but it was already dereferenced at (1) | Fix the NULL pointer dereference check in extlog_exit(). Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-10.1.0/gcc/Static-Analyzer-Options.html # [1] Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c index 71e8d4e7a36c..ca87a0939135 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c @@ -308,9 +308,10 @@ static int __init extlog_init(void) static void __exit extlog_exit(void) { mce_unregister_decode_chain(&extlog_mce_dec); - ((struct extlog_l1_head *)extlog_l1_addr)->flags &= ~FLAG_OS_OPTIN; - if (extlog_l1_addr) + if (extlog_l1_addr) { + ((struct extlog_l1_head *)extlog_l1_addr)->flags &= ~FLAG_OS_OPTIN; acpi_os_unmap_iomem(extlog_l1_addr, l1_size); + } if (elog_addr) acpi_os_unmap_iomem(elog_addr, elog_size); release_mem_region(elog_base, elog_size);