[v1] video : fbdev : stifb :- Handle return NULL error from ioremap_nocache.

Commit Message

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Jan. 30, 2017, 3:59 p.m. UTC

Hi,

On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 03:51:51 PM Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Here, If ioremap_nocache will fail. It will return NULL.
> Kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference.
> This error check will avoid NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <[e-mail]>

Thanks, I queued your patch with some minor changes for 4.11
(you can see the final version of the patch below).

Best regards,
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics


From: Arvind Yadav <[e-mail]>
Subject: [PATCH v1] video: fbdev: stifb: handle NULL return value from ioremap_nocache

Add missing error check for ioremap_nocache() failure
(prevents NULL pointer dereference on error).

Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[e-mail]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <[e-mail]>
[b.zolnierkie: minor fixes]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[e-mail]>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)


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Patch

Index: b/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c	2017-01-30 16:55:15.766435453 +0100
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/stifb.c	2017-01-30 16:55:15.750435453 +0100
@@ -1294,6 +1294,10 @@  static int __init stifb_init_fb(struct s
 	strcpy(fix->id, "stifb");
 	info->fbops = &stifb_ops;
 	info->screen_base = ioremap_nocache(REGION_BASE(fb,1), fix->smem_len);
+	if (!info->screen_base) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "stifb: failed to map memory\n");
+		goto out_err0;
+	}
 	info->screen_size = fix->smem_len;
 	info->flags = FBINFO_DEFAULT | FBINFO_HWACCEL_COPYAREA;
 	info->pseudo_palette = &fb->pseudo_palette;