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| author | Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> | 2008-12-15 18:17:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2008-12-21 14:21:14 +1100 |
| commit | 7a2eab0d4e656341cc0f6481d722d410f0414f0b (patch) | |
| tree | 12fef29982befe9469e2066b293639629e6b824a | |
| parent | 8168b5400b06353293f9844976435886eb2a8ff2 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-7a2eab0d4e656341cc0f6481d722d410f0414f0b.zip op-kernel-dev-7a2eab0d4e656341cc0f6481d722d410f0414f0b.tar.gz | |
powerpc: Protect against NULL pointer deref in phyp-dump code
print_dump_header() will be called at least once with a NULL pointer in
a normal boot sequence. If DEBUG is defined then we will dereference
the pointer and crash. Add a quick fix to exit early in the NULL pointer
case.
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Acked-by: Manish Ahuja <mahujam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c index edbc012..16e659a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c @@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ static unsigned long init_dump_header(struct phyp_dump_header *ph) static void print_dump_header(const struct phyp_dump_header *ph) { #ifdef DEBUG + if (ph == NULL) + return; + printk(KERN_INFO "dump header:\n"); /* setup some ph->sections required */ printk(KERN_INFO "version = %d\n", ph->version); |
