[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "mdio-sun4i: oops in error handling in probe" has been added to the 3.13.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Apr 4 23:22:00 UTC 2016


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

    mdio-sun4i: oops in error handling in probe

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

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt38.

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-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 08fe7d61b5a82970b326be9ee0ea0be709868c3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:02:31 +0300
Subject: mdio-sun4i: oops in error handling in probe

commit 227f33beab746aeec4ef3305bd17b1d374df09e7 upstream.

We could end up dereferencing an error pointer when we call
regulator_disable().

Fixes: 4bdcb1dd9feb ('net: Add MDIO bus driver for the Allwinner EMAC')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c
index 18969b3..1d76c1b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ static int sun4i_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 			return -EPROBE_DEFER;

 		dev_info(&pdev->dev, "no regulator found\n");
+		data->regulator = NULL;
 	} else {
 		ret = regulator_enable(data->regulator);
 		if (ret)
@@ -154,7 +155,8 @@ static int sun4i_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return 0;

 err_out_disable_regulator:
-	regulator_disable(data->regulator);
+	if (data->regulator)
+		regulator_disable(data->regulator);
 err_out_free_mdiobus:
 	mdiobus_free(bus);
 	return ret;
--
2.7.4





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