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Subject[PATCH 3.16 024/157] tty: atmel_serial: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
3.16.72-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>

commit c85be041065c0be8bc48eda4c45e0319caf1d0e5 upstream.

In case dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic fails, the fix returns a proper
error code to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Fixes: 34df42f59a60 ("serial: at91: add rx dma support")
Acked-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -1045,6 +1045,10 @@ static int atmel_prepare_rx_dma(struct u
sg_dma_len(&atmel_port->sg_rx)/2,
DMA_DEV_TO_MEM,
DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT);
+ if (!desc) {
+ dev_err(port->dev, "Preparing DMA cyclic failed\n");
+ goto chan_err;
+ }
desc->callback = atmel_complete_rx_dma;
desc->callback_param = port;
atmel_port->desc_rx = desc;
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