hwmon: (applesmc) Check key count before proceeding

After reports from Chris and Josh Boyer of a rare crash in applesmc,
Guenter pointed at the initialization problem fixed below. The patch
has not been verified to fix the crash, but should be applied
regardless.

Reported-by: <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Suggested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c b/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
index 62c2e32..98814d1 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
@@ -525,16 +525,25 @@ static int applesmc_init_smcreg_try(void)
 {
        struct applesmc_registers *s = &smcreg;
        bool left_light_sensor, right_light_sensor;
+       unsigned int count;
        u8 tmp[1];
        int ret;
 
        if (s->init_complete)
                return 0;
 
-       ret = read_register_count(&s->key_count);
+       ret = read_register_count(&count);
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
+       if (s->cache && s->key_count != count) {
+               pr_warn("key count changed from %d to %d\n",
+                       s->key_count, count);
+               kfree(s->cache);
+               s->cache = NULL;
+       }
+       s->key_count = count;
+
        if (!s->cache)
                s->cache = kcalloc(s->key_count, sizeof(*s->cache), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!s->cache)