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authorBob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>2009-04-22 12:57:40 +0800
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2009-05-27 00:30:49 -0400
commit65259094c3e038519a2d8fa6fbc6256f04ad6535 (patch)
tree57a2dce6aa258731904e6550268418274a92448e
parentb21245a85e62ea7eeb5b7562ce98cf8b0aecbd26 (diff)
ACPICA: Fix possible dereference of null pointer
Fix dereference of possibly null pointer "Predefined" in the case where the method is not one of the predefined methods. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c
index d9e8cbc6e679..7f8e066b12a3 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nspredef.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ acpi_ns_check_predefined_names(struct acpi_namespace_node *node,
pathname = acpi_ns_get_external_pathname(node);
if (!pathname) {
- pathname = ACPI_CAST_PTR(char, predefined->info.name);
+ return AE_OK; /* Could not get pathname, ignore */
}
/*
@@ -230,10 +230,7 @@ acpi_ns_check_predefined_names(struct acpi_namespace_node *node,
}
exit:
- if (pathname != predefined->info.name) {
- ACPI_FREE(pathname);
- }
-
+ ACPI_FREE(pathname);
return (status);
}