From: Hans Verkuil Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:15:31 +0000 (-0400) Subject: media: vivid: fix error handling of kthread_run X-Git-Tag: v4.9.152~23 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=63f7a4a68e8de3b438a76fec14f25079a24ed1b9;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-amlogic.git media: vivid: fix error handling of kthread_run commit 701f49bc028edb19ffccd101997dd84f0d71e279 upstream. kthread_run returns an error pointer, but elsewhere in the code dev->kthread_vid_cap/out is checked against NULL. If kthread_run returns an error, then set the pointer to NULL. I chose this method over changing all kthread_vid_cap/out tests elsewhere since this is more robust. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Reported-by: syzbot+53d5b2df0d9744411e2e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c b/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c index 6ca71aabb576..d300e5e7eadc 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c @@ -877,8 +877,11 @@ int vivid_start_generating_vid_cap(struct vivid_dev *dev, bool *pstreaming) "%s-vid-cap", dev->v4l2_dev.name); if (IS_ERR(dev->kthread_vid_cap)) { + int err = PTR_ERR(dev->kthread_vid_cap); + + dev->kthread_vid_cap = NULL; v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "kernel_thread() failed\n"); - return PTR_ERR(dev->kthread_vid_cap); + return err; } *pstreaming = true; vivid_grab_controls(dev, true); diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-out.c b/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-out.c index 98eed5889bc1..7c8d75852816 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-out.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-out.c @@ -248,8 +248,11 @@ int vivid_start_generating_vid_out(struct vivid_dev *dev, bool *pstreaming) "%s-vid-out", dev->v4l2_dev.name); if (IS_ERR(dev->kthread_vid_out)) { + int err = PTR_ERR(dev->kthread_vid_out); + + dev->kthread_vid_out = NULL; v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "kernel_thread() failed\n"); - return PTR_ERR(dev->kthread_vid_out); + return err; } *pstreaming = true; vivid_grab_controls(dev, true);