Hi Helen,
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 04:32:00PM -0300, Helen Koike wrote:
> Fix kernel Oops NULL pointer deference
> Call dev_dbg_obj only after checking if gobj->mdev is not NULL
>
> Signed-off-by: Helen Koike <helen.ko...@collabora.com>
> ---
> drivers/media/media-entity.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/media-entity.c b/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> index 5640ca2..bc44193 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> @@ -199,12 +199,12 @@ void media_gobj_create(struct media_device *mdev,
>
> void media_gobj_destroy(struct media_gobj *gobj)
> {
> - dev_dbg_obj(__func__, gobj);
> -
> /* Do nothing if the object is not linked. */
> if (gobj->mdev == NULL)
> return;
>
> + dev_dbg_obj(__func__, gobj);
> +
> gobj->mdev->topology_version++;
>
> /* Remove the object from mdev list */
Where is media_gobj_destroy() called with an object with NULL mdev?
I do not object to the change, but would like to know because I don't think
it's supposed to happen.
There are issues though, until the patches fixing object referencing are
finished and merged. Unfortunately I haven't been able to work on those
recently, will pick them up again soon...
--
Kind regards,
Sakari Ailus
e-mail: sakari.ai...@iki.fi XMPP: sai...@retiisi.org.uk
