[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] usb: xhci: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

Sergey Temerkhanov s.temerkhanov at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 14:38:07 CEST 2015


This patch fixes a potential NULL pointer dereference arising on
non-present/non-initialized xHCI controllers and adds some error
handling to xHCI code

Signed-off-by: Sergey Temerkhanov <s.temerkhanov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rchintakuntla at cavium.com>

---

Changes in v3:
- Assign NULL to *controller so it remains that in case of an error

Changes in v2:
- Add return value check with setting hccr and hcor to NULL

 drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
index 0b09643..307e1a6 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ int xhci_reset(struct xhci_hcor *hcor)
 	int ret;
 
 	/* Halting the Host first */
-	debug("// Halt the HC\n");
+	debug("// Halt the HC: %p\n", hcor);
 	state = xhci_readl(&hcor->or_usbsts) & STS_HALT;
 	if (!state) {
 		cmd = xhci_readl(&hcor->or_usbcmd);
@@ -1064,6 +1064,8 @@ int usb_lowlevel_init(int index, enum usb_init_type init, void **controller)
 	struct xhci_ctrl *ctrl;
 	int ret;
 
+	*controller = NULL;
+
 	if (xhci_hcd_init(index, &hccr, (struct xhci_hcor **)&hcor) != 0)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
@@ -1077,7 +1079,12 @@ int usb_lowlevel_init(int index, enum usb_init_type init, void **controller)
 
 	ret = xhci_lowlevel_init(ctrl);
 
-	*controller = &xhcic[index];
+	if (ret) {
+		ctrl->hccr = NULL;
+		ctrl->hcor = NULL;
+	} else {
+		*controller = &xhcic[index];
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -1093,9 +1100,11 @@ int usb_lowlevel_stop(int index)
 {
 	struct xhci_ctrl *ctrl = (xhcic + index);
 
-	xhci_lowlevel_stop(ctrl);
-	xhci_hcd_stop(index);
-	xhci_cleanup(ctrl);
+	if (ctrl->hcor) {
+		xhci_lowlevel_stop(ctrl);
+		xhci_hcd_stop(index);
+		xhci_cleanup(ctrl);
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.2.0



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