[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 04/40] powerpc/iommu: Avoid derefence before pointer check

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Sun Nov 10 13:49:56 AEDT 2019


From: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>

[ Upstream commit 984ecdd68de0fa1f63ce205d6c19ef5a7bc67b40 ]

The tbl pointer is being derefenced by IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE prior the check
if it is not NULL.

Just moving the dereference code to after the check, where there will
be guarantee that 'tbl' will not be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
index a8e3490b54e3b..4c9b5970af371 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
@@ -764,9 +764,9 @@ dma_addr_t iommu_map_page(struct device *dev, struct iommu_table *tbl,
 
 	vaddr = page_address(page) + offset;
 	uaddr = (unsigned long)vaddr;
-	npages = iommu_num_pages(uaddr, size, IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE(tbl));
 
 	if (tbl) {
+		npages = iommu_num_pages(uaddr, size, IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE(tbl));
 		align = 0;
 		if (tbl->it_page_shift < PAGE_SHIFT && size >= PAGE_SIZE &&
 		    ((unsigned long)vaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) == 0)
-- 
2.20.1



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