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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: "Jacek Anaszewski" <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] led: triggers: Fix NULL dereference in led_trigger_set() error handling
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 12:57:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190905095728.GA26005@mwanda> (raw)

The problem is we set "led_cdev->trigger = NULL;" and then dereference
it when we call write_lock_irqsave():

	write_lock_irqsave(&led_cdev->trigger->leddev_list_lock, flags);
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Fixes: 2282e125a406 ("leds: triggers: let struct led_trigger::activate() return an error code")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
 drivers/leds/led-triggers.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c b/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
index eff1bda8b520..13cea227277c 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
@@ -167,12 +167,12 @@ int led_trigger_set(struct led_classdev *led_cdev, struct led_trigger *trig)
 		trig->deactivate(led_cdev);
 err_activate:
 
-	led_cdev->trigger = NULL;
-	led_cdev->trigger_data = NULL;
 	write_lock_irqsave(&led_cdev->trigger->leddev_list_lock, flags);
 	list_del(&led_cdev->trig_list);
 	write_unlock_irqrestore(&led_cdev->trigger->leddev_list_lock, flags);
+	led_cdev->trigger = NULL;
+	led_cdev->trigger_data = NULL;
 	led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_OFF);
 	kfree(event);
 
 	return ret;
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-09-05  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-05  9:57 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-09-05 11:22 ` [PATCH] led: triggers: Fix NULL dereference in led_trigger_set() error handling Oleh Kravchenko
2019-09-05 12:06 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-09-05 12:23   ` Oleh Kravchenko
2019-09-05 12:46     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-09-05 20:41       ` Jacek Anaszewski
2019-09-05 13:32     ` Dan Carpenter
2019-09-08  9:46       ` Oleh Kravchenko
2019-09-05 12:39   ` Oleh Kravchenko
2019-09-05 13:04   ` Dan Carpenter

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