[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "usb: musb: avoid NULL pointer dereference" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu May 1 19:17:07 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    usb: musb: avoid NULL pointer dereference

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.1.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:58:43 -0600
Subject: usb: musb: avoid NULL pointer dereference

commit eee3f15d5f1f4f0c283dd4db67dc1b874a2852d1 upstream.

instead of relying on the otg pointer, which
can be NULL in certain cases, we can use the
gadget and host pointers we already hold inside
struct musb.

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c
index 4d4499b..b29331e 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c
@@ -439,7 +439,6 @@ void musb_hnp_stop(struct musb *musb)
 static irqreturn_t musb_stage0_irq(struct musb *musb, u8 int_usb,
 				u8 devctl)
 {
-	struct usb_otg *otg = musb->xceiv->otg;
 	irqreturn_t handled = IRQ_NONE;

 	dev_dbg(musb->controller, "<== DevCtl=%02x, int_usb=0x%x\n", devctl,
@@ -654,7 +653,7 @@ static irqreturn_t musb_stage0_irq(struct musb *musb, u8 int_usb,
 				break;
 		case OTG_STATE_B_PERIPHERAL:
 			musb_g_suspend(musb);
-			musb->is_active = otg->gadget->b_hnp_enable;
+			musb->is_active = musb->g.b_hnp_enable;
 			if (musb->is_active) {
 				musb->xceiv->state = OTG_STATE_B_WAIT_ACON;
 				dev_dbg(musb->controller, "HNP: Setting timer for b_ase0_brst\n");
@@ -670,7 +669,7 @@ static irqreturn_t musb_stage0_irq(struct musb *musb, u8 int_usb,
 			break;
 		case OTG_STATE_A_HOST:
 			musb->xceiv->state = OTG_STATE_A_SUSPEND;
-			musb->is_active = otg->host->b_hnp_enable;
+			musb->is_active = musb->hcd->self.b_hnp_enable;
 			break;
 		case OTG_STATE_B_HOST:
 			/* Transition to B_PERIPHERAL, see 6.8.2.6 p 44 */
--
1.9.1





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