From: Gilles Chanteperdrix Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 18:37:44 +0000 (+0200) Subject: net/at91_ether: avoid NULL pointer dereference X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=661f2c959342dd73e679adba75b2f8ddbe276981;p=karo-tx-linux.git net/at91_ether: avoid NULL pointer dereference [ Upstream commit c293fb785bdda64d88f197e6758a3c16ae83e569 ] The at91_ether driver calls macb_mii_init passing a 'struct macb' structure whose tx_clk member is initialized to 0. However, macb_handle_link_change() expects tx_clk to be the result of a call to clk_get, and so IS_ERR(tx_clk) to be true if the clock is invalid. This causes an oops when booting Linux 3.14 on the csb637 board. The following changes avoids this. Signed-off-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/at91_ether.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/at91_ether.c index ce75de9bae9e..4a79edaf3885 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/at91_ether.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/at91_ether.c @@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ static int __init at91ether_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) } clk_enable(lp->pclk); + lp->hclk = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + lp->tx_clk = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + /* Install the interrupt handler */ dev->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); res = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, dev->irq, at91ether_interrupt, 0, dev->name, dev);