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Interrupt handler processes multiple message write requests one after
another, till the driver message queue is drained. However if driver
encounters a read message without preceding START, it stops the I2C
transfer as it is an invalid condition for the controller. At least the
comment describes a requirement "the controller forces us to send a new
START when we change direction". This stop results in clearing the
message queue (i2c->msg = NULL).
The code however immediately jumped back to label "retry_write" which
dereferenced the "i2c->msg" making it a possible NULL pointer
dereference.
The Coverity analysis:
1. Condition !is_msgend(i2c), taking false branch.
if (!is_msgend(i2c)) {
2. Condition !is_lastmsg(i2c), taking true branch.
} else if (!is_lastmsg(i2c)) {
3. Condition i2c->msg->flags & 1, taking true branch.
if (i2c->msg->flags & I2C_M_RD) {
4. write_zero_model: Passing i2c to s3c24xx_i2c_stop, which sets i2c->msg to NULL.
s3c24xx_i2c_stop(i2c, -EINVAL);
5. Jumping to label retry_write.
goto retry_write;
6. var_deref_model: Passing i2c to is_msgend, which dereferences null i2c->msg.
if (!is_msgend(i2c)) {"
All previous calls to s3c24xx_i2c_stop() in this interrupt service
routine are followed by jumping to end of function (acknowledging
the interrupt and returning). This seems a reasonable choice also here
since message buffer was entirely emptied.
Addresses-Coverity: Explicit null dereferenced
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
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