From 2e84f116afca3719c9d0a1a78b47b48f75fd5724 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aditya Pakki Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 21:19:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] x86/hpet: Prevent potential NULL pointer dereference hpet_virt_address may be NULL when ioremap_nocache fail, but the code lacks a check. Add a check to prevent NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: kjlu@umn.edu Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Nicolai Stange Cc: Roland Dreier Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319021958.17275-1-pakki001@umn.edu --- arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c index dfd3aca82c61..fb32925a2e62 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c @@ -905,6 +905,8 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) return 0; hpet_set_mapping(); + if (!hpet_virt_address) + return 0; /* * Read the period and check for a sane value: