[PATCH] powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null

[Daniel Axtens]

Hi Colin,

This looks good. Out of curiousity, how did you find it? Code
inspection? Bug? Static analysis?

Not that it's particularly meaningful for such a trivial fix, but FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>

Regards,
Daniel

Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com> writes:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> pi_buff is being memset before it is sanity checked. Move the
> memset after the null pi_buff sanity check to avoid an oops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c
> index eedb645..94a6e56 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvcserver.c
> @@ -142,11 +142,11 @@ int hvcs_get_partner_info(uint32_t unit_address, struct list_head *head,
>  	int more = 1;
>  	int retval;
>  
> -	memset(pi_buff, 0x00, PAGE_SIZE);
>  	/* invalid parameters */
>  	if (!head || !pi_buff)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	memset(pi_buff, 0x00, PAGE_SIZE);
>  	last_p_partition_ID = last_p_unit_address = ~0UL;
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(head);
>  
> -- 
> 2.5.0
>
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