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[13/52] cpuidle: add checks to avoid NULL pointer dereference

Message ID 1b0a0e9a15b976d91f3b5ae619c6a8964c2818eb.1343187617.git.len.brown@intel.com (mailing list archive)
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Len Brown July 25, 2012, 3:41 a.m. UTC 
From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

The existing check for dev == NULL in __cpuidle_register_device() is
rendered useless because dev is dereferenced before the check itself.
Moreover, correctly speaking, it is the job of the callers of this
function, i.e., cpuidle_register_device() & cpuidle_enable_device() (which
also happen to be exported functions) to ensure that
__cpuidle_register_device() is called with a non-NULL dev.

So add the necessary dev == NULL checks in the two callers and remove the
(useless) check from __cpuidle_register_device().

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index 588b44a..8ffef26 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@  int cpuidle_enable_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 	int ret, i;
 	struct cpuidle_driver *drv = cpuidle_get_driver();
 
+	if (!dev)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (dev->enabled)
 		return 0;
 	if (!drv || !cpuidle_curr_governor)
@@ -369,8 +372,6 @@  static int __cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 	struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device((unsigned long)dev->cpu);
 	struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_driver = cpuidle_get_driver();
 
-	if (!dev)
-		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!try_module_get(cpuidle_driver->owner))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -395,6 +396,9 @@  int cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	if (!dev)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	mutex_lock(&cpuidle_lock);
 
 	if ((ret = __cpuidle_register_device(dev))) {