[PATCH RFC 1/3] i2c: bcm2835: Avoid possible NULL ptr dereference

Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren at i2se.com
Thu Feb 16 13:20:45 PST 2017


Since commit e2474541032d ("bcm2835: Fix hang for writing messages
larger than 16 bytes") the interrupt handler is prone to a possible
NULL pointer dereference. This could happen if an interrupt fires
before curr_msg is set by bcm2835_i2c_xfer_msg() and randomly occurs
on the RPi 3. Even this is an unexpected behavior the driver must
handle that with an error instead of a crash.

CC: Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org>
CC: Martin Sperl <kernel at martin.sperl.org>
Reported-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
Fixes: e2474541032d ("bcm2835: Fix hang for writing messages larger than 16 bytes")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com>
---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c
index c3436f6..10e39c8 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c
@@ -195,7 +195,9 @@ static irqreturn_t bcm2835_i2c_isr(int this_irq, void *data)
 	}
 
 	if (val & BCM2835_I2C_S_DONE) {
-		if (i2c_dev->curr_msg->flags & I2C_M_RD) {
+		if (!i2c_dev->curr_msg) {
+			dev_err(i2c_dev->dev, "Got unexpected interrupt (from firmware?)\n");
+		} else if (i2c_dev->curr_msg->flags & I2C_M_RD) {
 			bcm2835_drain_rxfifo(i2c_dev);
 			val = bcm2835_i2c_readl(i2c_dev, BCM2835_I2C_S);
 		}
-- 
1.7.9.5




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