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mm/dmapool.c: fix null dev in dma_pool_create()
authorXi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:07:04 +0000 (10:07 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:26:55 +0000 (17:26 +1000)
commit21636e2f8f2e6524e96f462aa85877d4982fb3dd
tree1f1b12b44e44cfec7c97439fa32f45eed37a8af0
parentc22a7bd86cbd41e747459793ce3245a8d248bba0
mm/dmapool.c: fix null dev in dma_pool_create()

A few drivers invoke dma_pool_create() with a null dev.  Note that dev is
dereferenced in dev_to_node(dev), causing a null pointer dereference.

A long term solution is to disallow null dev.  Once the drivers are fixed,
we can simplify the core code here.  For now we add WARN_ON(!dev) to
notify the driver maintainers and avoid the null pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/dmapool.c