acerhdf: driver didn't verify the pointers in which it got product information
Driver didn't verify the pointers in which it got product information back
from DMI; on QEMU one of the pointers came back null, which made the
driver crash and subsequently caused a kernel panic.
Signed-off-by: Rahul Chaturvedi <rkc@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c
index 9226838..6abd3f1 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c
@@ -524,6 +524,10 @@
version = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BIOS_VERSION);
product = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME);
+ if (!vendor || !version || !product) {
+ pr_err("error getting hardware information\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
pr_info("Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.%s\n", DRV_VER);