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authorStefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>2025-03-09 13:50:11 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-04-10 14:39:26 +0200
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staging: vchiq_arm: Fix possible NPR of keep-alive thread
[ Upstream commit 3db89bc6d973e2bcaa852f6409c98c228f39a926 ] In case vchiq_platform_conn_state_changed() is never called or fails before driver removal, ka_thread won't be a valid pointer to a task_struct. So do the necessary checks before calling kthread_stop to avoid a crash. Fixes: 863a756aaf49 ("staging: vc04_services: vchiq_core: Stop kthreads on vchiq module unload") Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250309125014.37166-3-wahrenst@gmx.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
index ecf6e9635a10..97787002080a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
@@ -1786,7 +1786,8 @@ static void vchiq_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
kthread_stop(mgmt->state.slot_handler_thread);
arm_state = vchiq_platform_get_arm_state(&mgmt->state);
- kthread_stop(arm_state->ka_thread);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(arm_state->ka_thread))
+ kthread_stop(arm_state->ka_thread);
}
static struct platform_driver vchiq_driver = {