[PATCH] phy: Fix possible NULL pointer deference

Vignesh Raghavendra vigneshr at ti.com
Wed May 20 19:05:41 CEST 2020


It is possible that users of generic_phy_*() APIs may pass a valid
struct phy pointer but phy->dev can be NULL, leading to NULL pointer
deference in phy_dev_ops().

So call generic_phy_valid() to verify that phy and phy->dev are both
valid.

Signed-off-by: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr at ti.com>
---
 drivers/phy/phy-uclass.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-uclass.c b/drivers/phy/phy-uclass.c
index 1fded5ebf42f..89510c5772e0 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/phy-uclass.c
+++ b/drivers/phy/phy-uclass.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ int generic_phy_init(struct phy *phy)
 {
 	struct phy_ops const *ops;
 
-	if (!phy)
+	if (!generic_phy_valid(phy))
 		return 0;
 	ops = phy_dev_ops(phy->dev);
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int generic_phy_reset(struct phy *phy)
 {
 	struct phy_ops const *ops;
 
-	if (!phy)
+	if (!generic_phy_valid(phy))
 		return 0;
 	ops = phy_dev_ops(phy->dev);
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int generic_phy_exit(struct phy *phy)
 {
 	struct phy_ops const *ops;
 
-	if (!phy)
+	if (!generic_phy_valid(phy))
 		return 0;
 	ops = phy_dev_ops(phy->dev);
 
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ int generic_phy_power_on(struct phy *phy)
 {
 	struct phy_ops const *ops;
 
-	if (!phy)
+	if (!generic_phy_valid(phy))
 		return 0;
 	ops = phy_dev_ops(phy->dev);
 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ int generic_phy_power_off(struct phy *phy)
 {
 	struct phy_ops const *ops;
 
-	if (!phy)
+	if (!generic_phy_valid(phy))
 		return 0;
 	ops = phy_dev_ops(phy->dev);
 
-- 
2.26.2



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