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[PATCH 3.12 129/235] tick/broadcast: Prevent NULL pointer dereference

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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit c1a9eeb938b5433947e5ea22f89baff3182e7075 upstream.

When a disfunctional timer, e.g. dummy timer, is installed, the tick core
tries to setup the broadcast timer.

If no broadcast device is installed, the kernel crashes with a NULL pointer
dereference in tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot() because the function has no
sanity check.

Reported-by: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Cc: Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net>
Cc: Thibaud Cornic <thibaud_cornic@sigmadesigns.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1147ef90-7877-e4d2-bb2b-5c4fa8d3144b@free.fr
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 8a95408b1345..f27eb5db3260 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -778,6 +778,9 @@ void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc)
 {
 	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
+	if (!bc)
+		return;
+
 	/* Set it up only once ! */
 	if (bc->event_handler != tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast) {
 		int was_periodic = bc->mode == CLOCK_EVT_MODE_PERIODIC;
-- 
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