[1/3] powerpc/eeh: Null check uses of eeh_pe_bus_get

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Sep 21 14:02:19 AEST 2016


On Mon, 2016-12-09 at 04:17:22 UTC, Russell Currey wrote:
> eeh_pe_bus_get() can return NULL if a PCI bus isn't found for a given PE.
> Some callers don't check this, and can cause a null pointer dereference
> under certain circumstances.
> 
> Fix this by checking NULL everywhere eeh_pe_bus_get() is called.
> 
> Cc: stable #3.10+

This looks like it's a fix for 8a6b1bc70dbb ("powerpc/eeh: EEH core to handle
special event") ?

Which was merged in v3.11-rc1.

If so I'll add a fixes line pointing at that commit and update the stable tag to
v3.11+.

cheers


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