From c1a9eeb938b5433947e5ea22f89baff3182e7075 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:10:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tick/broadcast: Prevent NULL pointer dereference When a disfunctional timer, e.g. dummy timer, is installed, the tick core tries to setup the broadcast timer. If no broadcast device is installed, the kernel crashes with a NULL pointer dereference in tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot() because the function has no sanity check. Reported-by: Mason Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Cc: Sebastian Frias Cc: Thibaud Cornic Cc: Robin Murphy Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1147ef90-7877-e4d2-bb2b-5c4fa8d3144b@free.fr --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index f6aae7977824..d2a20e83ebae 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -871,6 +871,9 @@ void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc) { int cpu = smp_processor_id(); + if (!bc) + return; + /* Set it up only once ! */ if (bc->event_handler != tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast) { int was_periodic = clockevent_state_periodic(bc);