xhci: fix null pointer dereference on ring_doorbell_for_active_rings
authorOleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:36:19 +0000 (15:36 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 4 Aug 2013 07:43:33 +0000 (15:43 +0800)
commit67a6ad3b0ca2311d4209338eec23c14331da5d36
tree5c73f51c0213dc94f5f6d746b3a010bd97a9264b
parent197d436deff13594bcc97740147c5ed9e7fe7ddb
xhci: fix null pointer dereference on ring_doorbell_for_active_rings

commit d66eaf9f89502971fddcb0de550b01fa6f409d83 upstream.

in some cases where device is attched to xhci port and do not responding,
for example ath9k_htc with stalled firmware, kernel will
crash on ring_doorbell_for_active_rings.
This patch check if pointer exist before it is used.

This patch should be backported to kernels as old as 2.6.35, that
contain the commit e9df17eb1408cfafa3d1844bfc7f22c7237b31b8 "USB: xhci:
Correct assumptions about number of rings per endpoint"

Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c