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mm/dmapool.c: fix null dev in dma_pool_create()
authorXi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:15:05 +0000 (13:15 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:53:02 +0000 (16:53 +1100)
commit8f852fbe395c3d31d554622c26661e21ac64d147
tree9bf8bb77c9b534425e8437b61cb39b169d88e6b2
parent13b19dcffe6f025b3e39008f0247b5569905ad59
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