cpuidle: add checks to avoid NULL pointer dereference

The existing check for dev == NULL in __cpuidle_register_device() is
rendered useless because dev is dereferenced before the check itself.
Moreover, correctly speaking, it is the job of the callers of this
function, i.e., cpuidle_register_device() & cpuidle_enable_device() (which
also happen to be exported functions) to ensure that
__cpuidle_register_device() is called with a non-NULL dev.

So add the necessary dev == NULL checks in the two callers and remove the
(useless) check from __cpuidle_register_device().

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index 588b44aa1de4..8ffef26ffdcf 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ int cpuidle_enable_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
         int ret, i;
         struct cpuidle_driver *drv = cpuidle_get_driver();
 
+        if (!dev)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
         if (dev->enabled)
                 return 0;
         if (!drv || !cpuidle_curr_governor)
@@ -369,8 +372,6 @@ static int __cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
         struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device((unsigned long)dev->cpu);
         struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_driver = cpuidle_get_driver();
 
-        if (!dev)
-                return -EINVAL;
         if (!try_module_get(cpuidle_driver->owner))
                 return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -395,6 +396,9 @@ int cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 {
         int ret;
 
+        if (!dev)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
         mutex_lock(&cpuidle_lock);
 
         if ((ret = __cpuidle_register_device(dev))) {