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[PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference

From Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference
Date 2015-09-10 13:20 +0200
Message-ID <q783w-8ez-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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During the last close we are freeing spidev if spidev->spi is NULL, but
just before checking if spidev->spi is NULL we are dereferencing it.
Lets add a check there to avoid the NULL dereference.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
---
 drivers/spi/spidev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
index fba92a5..ef008e5 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
@@ -651,7 +651,8 @@ static int spidev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 		kfree(spidev->rx_buffer);
 		spidev->rx_buffer = NULL;
 
-		spidev->speed_hz = spidev->spi->max_speed_hz;
+		if (spidev->spi)
+			spidev->speed_hz = spidev->spi->max_speed_hz;
 
 		/* ... after we unbound from the underlying device? */
 		spin_lock_irq(&spidev->spi_lock);
-- 
1.9.1

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[PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 13:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-11 14:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-09-11 14:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-11 15:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-09-11 16:30 +0200

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