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authorAlexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>2011-06-16 00:08:55 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-06-16 05:04:02 +0200
commitfb139dfeef9558a12ffdbf9e26951fd1a9304f3b (patch)
tree10a6408fa9953a484e7fcc629b433a9252c0a6de
parentdrivers/char/hpet.c: fix periodic-emulation for delayed interrupts (diff)
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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>
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c
index f2cb7503fcb2..465210930890 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) {