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| author | Rahul Chaturvedi <rkc@chromium.org> | 2010-07-21 02:19:33 +0400 |
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| committer | Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> | 2010-08-03 17:48:55 +0400 |
| commit | 5cf4c07a2805388b5645079039d9a8b4b9269e08 (patch) | |
| tree | f5b1e2bd32be46a026bed6afa997b997ae0f6c94 /drivers | |
| parent | 210183d4af87cc70d7e4552d325f238734cade15 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5cf4c07a2805388b5645079039d9a8b4b9269e08.tar.xz | |
acerhdf: driver didn't verify the pointers in which it got product information
Driver didn't verify the pointers in which it got product information back
from DMI; on QEMU one of the pointers came back null, which made the
driver crash and subsequently caused a kernel panic.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Chaturvedi <rkc@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c index 9226838c867f..6abd3f15dd85 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c @@ -524,6 +524,10 @@ static int acerhdf_check_hardware(void) version = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BIOS_VERSION); product = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME); + if (!vendor || !version || !product) { + pr_err("error getting hardware information\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } pr_info("Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.%s\n", DRV_VER); |