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authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>2009-01-29 14:25:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-29 18:04:43 -0800
commit17e2161654da4e6bdfd8d53d4f52e820ee93f423 (patch)
tree73963484f16dc6fdfc2f84200bc40c060a36ce70 /drivers
parent69b3bb65fa97a1e8563518dbbc35cd57beefb2d4 (diff)
sgi-xpc: Remove NULL pointer dereference.
If the bte copy fails, the attempt to retrieve payloads merely returns a null pointer deref and not NULL as was expected. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c
index 7aafb8a9194..7d05fb5f4fe 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c
@@ -1957,11 +1957,13 @@ xpc_get_deliverable_payload_sn2(struct xpc_channel *ch)
msg = xpc_pull_remote_msg_sn2(ch, get);
- DBUG_ON(msg != NULL && msg->number != get);
- DBUG_ON(msg != NULL && (msg->flags & XPC_M_SN2_DONE));
- DBUG_ON(msg != NULL && !(msg->flags & XPC_M_SN2_READY));
+ if (msg != NULL) {
+ DBUG_ON(msg->number != get);
+ DBUG_ON(msg->flags & XPC_M_SN2_DONE);
+ DBUG_ON(!(msg->flags & XPC_M_SN2_READY));
- payload = &msg->payload;
+ payload = &msg->payload;
+ }
break;
}