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authorKangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>2019-03-15 12:16:06 -0500
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2019-08-13 12:38:46 +0100
commitcf592ae629558dba003094192c667c74f4cc670c (patch)
treec25b3fb09995a83a239229574f8e6008627655bc /drivers
parent22230045cf8128435150a12d0b4ee4c41311600d (diff)
tty: atmel_serial: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
commit c85be041065c0be8bc48eda4c45e0319caf1d0e5 upstream. In case dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic fails, the fix returns a proper error code to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu> Fixes: 34df42f59a60 ("serial: at91: add rx dma support") Acked-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
index bc1c68c926bd..d8676716467b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -1045,6 +1045,10 @@ static int atmel_prepare_rx_dma(struct uart_port *port)
sg_dma_len(&atmel_port->sg_rx)/2,
DMA_DEV_TO_MEM,
DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT);
+ if (!desc) {
+ dev_err(port->dev, "Preparing DMA cyclic failed\n");
+ goto chan_err;
+ }
desc->callback = atmel_complete_rx_dma;
desc->callback_param = port;
atmel_port->desc_rx = desc;