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[4.2.y-ckt,stable] Patch "staging: comedi: das1800: fix possible NULL dereference" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Message ID 1465482822-20196-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
State New
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Kamal Mostafa June 9, 2016, 2:33 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    staging: comedi: das1800: fix possible NULL dereference

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 96c4a4358a2a418427f907fc81f62a0c80b1ebf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:14:58 -0700
Subject: staging: comedi: das1800: fix possible NULL dereference

commit d375278d666760e195693b57415ba0a125cadd55 upstream.

DMA is optional with this driver. If it was not enabled the devpriv->dma
pointer will be NULL.

Fix the possible NULL pointer dereference when trying to disable the DMA
channels in das1800_ai_cancel() and tidy up the comments to fix the
checkpatch.pl issues:
WARNING: line over 80 characters

It's probably harmless in das1800_ai_setup_dma() because the 'desc' pointer
will not be used if DMA is disabled but fix it there also.

Fixes: 99dfc3357e98 ("staging: comedi: das1800: remove depends on ISA_DMA_API limitation")
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
index 94078118..3be1096 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
@@ -567,14 +567,17 @@  static int das1800_cancel(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_subdevice *s)
 	struct comedi_isadma_desc *desc;
 	int i;

-	outb(0x0, dev->iobase + DAS1800_STATUS);	/* disable conversions */
-	outb(0x0, dev->iobase + DAS1800_CONTROL_B);	/* disable interrupts and dma */
-	outb(0x0, dev->iobase + DAS1800_CONTROL_A);	/* disable and clear fifo and stop triggering */
-
-	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
-		desc = &dma->desc[i];
-		if (desc->chan)
-			comedi_isadma_disable(desc->chan);
+	/* disable and stop conversions */
+	outb(0x0, dev->iobase + DAS1800_STATUS);
+	outb(0x0, dev->iobase + DAS1800_CONTROL_B);
+	outb(0x0, dev->iobase + DAS1800_CONTROL_A);
+
+	if (dma) {
+		for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+			desc = &dma->desc[i];
+			if (desc->chan)
+				comedi_isadma_disable(desc->chan);
+		}
 	}

 	return 0;
@@ -934,13 +937,14 @@  static void das1800_ai_setup_dma(struct comedi_device *dev,
 {
 	struct das1800_private *devpriv = dev->private;
 	struct comedi_isadma *dma = devpriv->dma;
-	struct comedi_isadma_desc *desc = &dma->desc[0];
+	struct comedi_isadma_desc *desc;
 	unsigned int bytes;

 	if ((devpriv->irq_dma_bits & DMA_ENABLED) == 0)
 		return;

 	dma->cur_dma = 0;
+	desc = &dma->desc[0];

 	/* determine a dma transfer size to fill buffer in 0.3 sec */
 	bytes = das1800_ai_transfer_size(dev, s, desc->maxsize, 300000000);