[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: kdump: Fix NULL pointer dereference in irq disable code

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Tue May 11 14:14:47 EST 2010


On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:23 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> With sparse irqs we have to check if we have a descriptor before dereferencing
> it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
> index 6f4613d..5182439 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
> @@ -375,6 +375,9 @@ void default_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  	for_each_irq(i) {
>  		struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(i);
>  
> +		if (!desc)
> +			continue;
> +
>  		if (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS)
>  			desc->chip->eoi(i);
>  

Ouch, my bad.

cheers
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