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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] led: triggers: Fix NULL dereference in led_trigger_set() error handling
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 14:06:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190905120626.hyegecmy6hf5lvhj@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190905095728.GA26005@mwanda>

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:57:28PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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>

Obviously right. Thanks for catching.

Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Did you find this at runtime or by using some static checker?

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-05 12:06 UTC|newest]

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