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cpuidle: add checks to avoid NULL pointer dereference

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>
Srivatsa S. Bhat 13 years ago
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1b0a0e9a15
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 6 2
      drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c

+ 6 - 2
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))) {