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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-07-17 13:28:19 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-07-17 13:28:19 -0400 |
commit | 14d87e6c399f3942d63dff41447ff08a615d9a6b (patch) | |
tree | cb2c1c18a791c79f51cb9ea7516287f9b2394f97 /drivers | |
parent | 8944146daa2c38dd85bc489d1b84fb9abc108837 (diff) |
sparc: Fix cleanup crash in bbc_envctrl_cleanup()
If kthread_run() fails or never gets to run we'll have NULL
or a pointer encoded error in kenvctrld_task, rather than
a legitimate task pointer.
So this makes bbc_envctrl_cleanup() crash as it passed this
bogus pointer into kthread_stop().
Reported-by: BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/sbus/char/bbc_envctrl.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/sbus/char/bbc_envctrl.c b/drivers/sbus/char/bbc_envctrl.c index 15dab96d05e3..7c815d3327f7 100644 --- a/drivers/sbus/char/bbc_envctrl.c +++ b/drivers/sbus/char/bbc_envctrl.c | |||
@@ -537,8 +537,12 @@ int bbc_envctrl_init(struct bbc_i2c_bus *bp) | |||
537 | } | 537 | } |
538 | if (temp_index != 0 && fan_index != 0) { | 538 | if (temp_index != 0 && fan_index != 0) { |
539 | kenvctrld_task = kthread_run(kenvctrld, NULL, "kenvctrld"); | 539 | kenvctrld_task = kthread_run(kenvctrld, NULL, "kenvctrld"); |
540 | if (IS_ERR(kenvctrld_task)) | 540 | if (IS_ERR(kenvctrld_task)) { |
541 | return PTR_ERR(kenvctrld_task); | 541 | int err = PTR_ERR(kenvctrld_task); |
542 | |||
543 | kenvctrld_task = NULL; | ||
544 | return err; | ||
545 | } | ||
542 | } | 546 | } |
543 | 547 | ||
544 | return 0; | 548 | return 0; |
@@ -561,7 +565,8 @@ void bbc_envctrl_cleanup(struct bbc_i2c_bus *bp) | |||
561 | struct bbc_cpu_temperature *tp, *tpos; | 565 | struct bbc_cpu_temperature *tp, *tpos; |
562 | struct bbc_fan_control *fp, *fpos; | 566 | struct bbc_fan_control *fp, *fpos; |
563 | 567 | ||
564 | kthread_stop(kenvctrld_task); | 568 | if (kenvctrld_task) |
569 | kthread_stop(kenvctrld_task); | ||
565 | 570 | ||
566 | list_for_each_entry_safe(tp, tpos, &bp->temps, bp_list) { | 571 | list_for_each_entry_safe(tp, tpos, &bp->temps, bp_list) { |
567 | list_del(&tp->bp_list); | 572 | list_del(&tp->bp_list); |