Re: [PATCH 2/2] [media] cec: Fix runtime BUG when (CONFIG_RC_CORE && !CEC_CAP_RC)

From: Lee Jones
Date: Tue Apr 04 2017 - 08:55:51 EST


On Tue, 04 Apr 2017, Hans Verkuil wrote:

> On 04/04/2017 02:32 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Currently when the RC Core is enabled (reachable) core code located
> > in cec_register_adapter() attempts to populate the RC structure with
> > a pointer to the 'parent' passed in by the caller.
> >
> > Unfortunately if the caller did not specify RC capibility when calling
> > cec_allocate_adapter(), then there will be no RC structure to populate.
> >
> > This causes a "NULL pointer dereference" error.
> >
> > Fixes: f51e80804f0 ("[media] cec: pass parent device in register(), not allocate()")
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Oops! Thanks for the report. I'll take this for 4.12.

Since this is a -fix, it should really go in for v4.11.

> > ---
> > drivers/media/cec/cec-core.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/cec/cec-core.c b/drivers/media/cec/cec-core.c
> > index 06a312c..d64937b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/cec/cec-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/cec/cec-core.c
> > @@ -286,8 +286,8 @@ int cec_register_adapter(struct cec_adapter *adap,
> > adap->devnode.dev.parent = parent;
> >
> > #if IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_RC_CORE)
> > - adap->rc->dev.parent = parent;
> > if (adap->capabilities & CEC_CAP_RC) {
> > + adap->rc->dev.parent = parent;
> > res = rc_register_device(adap->rc);
> >
> > if (res) {
> >
>

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