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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2008-03-22 14:41:05 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-03-24 17:55:49 +1100
commit9560aea4e9d17cb75113c6051e800222fd5c71a4 (patch)
tree88517a2a9d2380196b32b03f047eadf1602316c8 /arch/powerpc
parentb8c19eb16a7e6df57d0f6d67e42ce026e5d5930b (diff)
[POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix null dereference if bestcomm fails to initialize
If the bestcomm initialization fails, calls to the task allocate function should fail gracefully instead of oopsing with a NULL deref. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/sysdev/bestcomm/bestcomm.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/bestcomm/bestcomm.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
index f589999361e0..b18cab55a76d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/bestcomm/bestcomm.c
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ bcom_task_alloc(int bd_count, int bd_size, int priv_size)
int i, tasknum = -1;
struct bcom_task *tsk;
+ /* Don't try to do anything if bestcomm init failed */
+ if (!bcom_eng)
+ return NULL;
+
/* Get and reserve a task num */
spin_lock(&bcom_eng->lock);