From f8489660a18c1865ee4f4a47593fd2dcf67a4e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:01:46 +0000 Subject: ARM: perf: check that we have a platform device when reserving PMU Attempting to use a hardware counter on a platform with a supported PMU but where the platform_device (defining the interrupts) has not been registered results in a NULL pointer dereference. This patch fixes the problem by checking that we actually have a platform device registered before attempting to grab the interrupts. Reported-by: Pawel Moll Signed-off-by: Will Deacon (cherry picked from commit e5a21327644adba32816f74a415114d11c57f2e9) --- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c index c157e9b9c3c..5e455094df8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -402,6 +402,9 @@ armpmu_reserve_hardware(struct arm_pmu *armpmu) int i, err, irq, irqs; struct platform_device *pmu_device = armpmu->plat_device; + if (!pmu_device) + return -ENODEV; + err = reserve_pmu(armpmu->type); if (err) { pr_warning("unable to reserve pmu\n"); -- cgit v1.2.3