This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gpiolib: Fix NULL pointer deference
to the 4.6-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:
gpiolib-fix-null-pointer-deference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 11f33a6d15bfa397867ac0d7f3481b6dd683286f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 19:10:01 +0200
Subject: gpiolib: Fix NULL pointer deference
From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 11f33a6d15bfa397867ac0d7f3481b6dd683286f upstream.
Under some circumstances, a gpiochip might be half cleaned from the
gpio_device list.
This patch makes sure that the chip pointer is still valid, before
calling the match function.
[ 104.088296] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000090
[ 104.089772] IP: [<ffffffff813d2045>] of_gpiochip_find_and_xlate+0x15/0x80
[ 104.128273] Call Trace:
[ 104.129802] [<ffffffff813d2030>] ? of_parse_own_gpio+0x1f0/0x1f0
[ 104.131353] [<ffffffff813cd910>] gpiochip_find+0x60/0x90
[ 104.132868] [<ffffffff813d21ba>] of_get_named_gpiod_flags+0x9a/0x120
...
[ 104.141586] [<ffffffff8163d12b>] gpio_led_probe+0x11b/0x360
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ struct gpio_chip *gpiochip_find(void *da
spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);
list_for_each_entry(gdev, &gpio_devices, list)
- if (match(gdev->chip, data))
+ if (gdev->chip && match(gdev->chip, data))
break;
/* No match? */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.6/gpiolib-fix-unaligned-used-of-reference-counters.patch
queue-4.6/gpiolib-fix-null-pointer-deference.patch
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