This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: fix null pointer deref on interrupt

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the staging-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:17:39 +0100 Subject: staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: fix null pointer deref on interrupt

The interrupt handler `pci230_interrupt()` causes a null pointer dereference for a PCI260 card. There is no analog output subdevice for a PCI260. The `dev->write_subdev` subdevice pointer and therefore the `s_ao` subdevice pointer variable will be `NULL` for a PCI260. The following call near the end of the interrupt handler results in the null pointer dereference for a PCI260:

comedi_handle_events(dev, s_ao);

Fix it by only calling the above function if `s_ao` is valid.

Note that the other uses of `s_ao` in the calls `pci230_handle_ao_nofifo(dev, s_ao);` and `pci230_handle_ao_fifo(dev, s_ao);` will never be reached for a PCI260, so they are safe.

Fixes: 39064f23284c ("staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: use comedi_handle_events()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+ Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/amplc_pci230.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/amplc_pci230.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/amplc_pci230.c index 65f60c2b702a..f7e673121864 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/amplc_pci230.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/amplc_pci230.c @@ -2330,7 +2330,8 @@ static irqreturn_t pci230_interrupt(int irq, void *d) devpriv->intr_running = false; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&devpriv->isr_spinlock, irqflags);

- comedi_handle_events(dev, s_ao); + if (s_ao) + comedi_handle_events(dev, s_ao); comedi_handle_events(dev, s_ai);

return IRQ_HANDLED;