From: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:17:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: powerpc: Protect against NULL pointer deref in phyp-dump code
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a2eab0d4e656341cc0f6481d722d410f0414f0b;p=linux-beck.git

powerpc: Protect against NULL pointer deref in phyp-dump code

print_dump_header() will be called at least once with a NULL pointer in
a normal boot sequence.  If DEBUG is defined then we will dereference
the pointer and crash.  Add a quick fix to exit early in the NULL pointer
case.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Acked-by: Manish Ahuja <mahujam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c
index edbc012c2ebc..16e659a71440 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/phyp_dump.c
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ static unsigned long init_dump_header(struct phyp_dump_header *ph)
 static void print_dump_header(const struct phyp_dump_header *ph)
 {
 #ifdef DEBUG
+	if (ph == NULL)
+		return;
+
 	printk(KERN_INFO "dump header:\n");
 	/* setup some ph->sections required */
 	printk(KERN_INFO "version = %d\n", ph->version);