From: Peter Meerwald Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:10:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: iio: Fix crash when scan_bytes is computed with active_scan_mask == NULL X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc2~1^2^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d66e0452bf6b0d98cd1a478918c92f2baffcb413;p=pandora-kernel.git iio: Fix crash when scan_bytes is computed with active_scan_mask == NULL if device has available_scan_masks set and the buffer is enabled without any scan_elements enabled, in a NULL pointer is dereferenced in iio_compute_scan_bytes() [ 18.993713] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 [ 19.002593] pgd = debd4000 [ 19.005432] [00000000] *pgd=9ebc0831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 [ 19.012329] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT ARM [ 19.017639] Modules linked in: [ 19.020843] CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.9.11-00036-g75c888a-dirty #207) [ 19.027587] PC is at _find_first_bit_le+0xc/0x2c [ 19.032440] LR is at iio_compute_scan_bytes+0x2c/0xf4 [ 19.037719] pc : [] lr : [] psr: 200d0013 [ 19.037719] sp : debd9ed0 ip : 00000000 fp : 000802bc [ 19.049713] r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : deb67250 [ 19.055206] r7 : 00000000 r6 : 00000000 r5 : 00000000 r4 : deb67000 [ 19.062011] r3 : de96ec00 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000004 r0 : 00000000 [ 19.068847] Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user [ 19.076324] Control: 10c5387d Table: 9ebd4019 DAC: 00000015 problem is the rollback code in iio_update_buffers(), old_mask may be NULL (e.g. on first call) I'm not too confident about the fix; works for me... Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron --- Reading git-diff-tree failed