[PATCH] cxl: Fix NULL pointer dereference on kernel contexts with no AFU interrupts

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Thu Jun 30 08:28:20 AEST 2016


On 30/06/16 04:55, Ian Munsie wrote:
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>
>
> If a kernel context is initialised and does not have any AFU interrupts
> allocated it will cause a NULL pointer dereference when the context is
> detached since the irq_names list will not have been initialised.
>
> Move the initialisation of the irq_names list into the cxl_context_init
> routine so that it will be valid for the entire lifetime of the context
> and will not cause a NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>

As it's nice having your machine not crash on every shutdown...

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited



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