From: Mattia Dongili Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 10:00:44 +0000 (+0900) Subject: sony-laptop: fix early NULL pointer dereference X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~7613^2~1645^2~10 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fef34861381eefe266c822fc28bdedc897a8265f;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git sony-laptop: fix early NULL pointer dereference The SNC acpi driver could get early notifications before it fully initializes and that could lead to dereferencing the sony_nc_handles structure pointer that is still NULL at that stage. Make sure we return early from the handle lookup function in these cases. Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett --- diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c index e642f5f29504..33c3b8c066ee 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c @@ -808,6 +808,11 @@ static int sony_nc_handles_cleanup(struct platform_device *pd) static int sony_find_snc_handle(int handle) { int i; + + /* not initialized yet, return early */ + if (!handles) + return -1; + for (i = 0; i < 0x10; i++) { if (handles->cap[i] == handle) { dprintk("found handle 0x%.4x (offset: 0x%.2x)\n",