[PATCH 1/1] rtc: gemini: add return value validation
Hans Ulli Kroll
ulli.kroll at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 27 00:22:54 EDT 2017
HI Pan,
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Pan Bian wrote:
> From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016 at 163.com>
>
> Function devm_ioremap() will return a NULL pointer if it fails to remap
> IO address, and its return value should be validated before it is used.
> However, in function gemini_rtc_probe(), its return value is not
> checked. This may result in bad memory access bugs on future access,
> e.g. calling the function gemini_rtc_read_time().
>
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016 at 163.com>
> ---
> drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c
> index ccf0dba..5279390 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c
> @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ static int gemini_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> rtc->rtc_base = devm_ioremap(dev, res->start,
> resource_size(res));
> + if (!rtc->rtc_base)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> ret = devm_request_irq(dev, rtc->rtc_irq, gemini_rtc_interrupt,
> IRQF_SHARED, pdev->name, dev);
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
>
Acked-by: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll at googlemail.com>
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