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[PATCH -resend] pps: do not crash when failed to register

From Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH -resend] pps: do not crash when failed to register
Date 2016-07-14 14:00 +0200
Message-ID <rUNt7-N5-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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With this command sequence:
 modprobe plip
 modprobe pps_parport
 rmmod pps_parport
the partport_pps modules causes this crash:

===

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
IP: [<ffffffffa110301d>] parport_detach+0x1d/0x60 [pps_parport]
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa036a185>] parport_unregister_driver+0x65/0xc0 [parport]
 [<ffffffff810ff667>] SyS_delete_module+0x187/0x210

===

1) plip is loaded and takes the parport device for exclusive use:
  plip0: Parallel port at 0x378, using IRQ 7.

2) pps_parport then fails to grab the device:
  pps_parport: parallel port PPS client
  parport0: cannot grant exclusive access for device pps_parport
  pps_parport: couldn't register with parport0

3) rmmod of pps_parport is then killed because it tries to access
   pardev->name, but pardev (taken from port->cad) is NULL.

So add a check for NULL in the test there too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
---
 drivers/pps/clients/pps_parport.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pps/clients/pps_parport.c b/drivers/pps/clients/pps_parport.c
index 38a8bbe74810..83797d89c30f 100644
--- a/drivers/pps/clients/pps_parport.c
+++ b/drivers/pps/clients/pps_parport.c
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static void parport_detach(struct parport *port)
 	struct pps_client_pp *device;
 
 	/* FIXME: oooh, this is ugly! */
-	if (strcmp(pardev->name, KBUILD_MODNAME))
+	if (!pardev || strcmp(pardev->name, KBUILD_MODNAME))
 		/* not our port */
 		return;
 
-- 
2.9.1

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[PATCH -resend] pps: do not crash when failed to register Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-07-14 14:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH -resend] pps: do not crash when failed to register Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> - 2016-07-14 14:50 +0200

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