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| author | Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> | 2011-06-15 15:08:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -0700 |
| commit | fb139dfeef9558a12ffdbf9e26951fd1a9304f3b (patch) | |
| tree | 10a6408fa9953a484e7fcc629b433a9252c0a6de /drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | |
| parent | 273ef9509b7903e50f36aaf9f1d5dc9087fca506 (diff) | |
drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c: don't oops if dmi_get_system_info returns NULL
If dmi_get_system_info() returns NULL, pch_uart_init_port() will
dereferencea a zero pointer.
This oops was observed on an Atom based board which has no BIOS, but
a bootloder which doesn't provide DMI data.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c index f2cb7503fcb..46521093089 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c @@ -1397,6 +1397,7 @@ static struct eg20t_port *pch_uart_init_port(struct pci_dev *pdev, int fifosize, base_baud; int port_type; struct pch_uart_driver_data *board; + const char *board_name; board = &drv_dat[id->driver_data]; port_type = board->port_type; @@ -1412,7 +1413,8 @@ static struct eg20t_port *pch_uart_init_port(struct pci_dev *pdev, base_baud = 1843200; /* 1.8432MHz */ /* quirk for CM-iTC board */ - if (strstr(dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BOARD_NAME), "CM-iTC")) + board_name = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BOARD_NAME); + if (board_name && strstr(board_name, "CM-iTC")) base_baud = 192000000; /* 192.0MHz */ switch (port_type) { |