Commit ac84aa2b authored by Naveen N. Rao's avatar Naveen N. Rao Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/hw_breakpoints: Fix incorrect pointer access

If arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() fails, bp->ctx won't be valid and the
kernel panics. Add a check to fix this.
Reported-by: default avatarEdjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent 1d5a436d
......@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ void arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp)
* and the single_step_dabr_instruction(), then cleanup the breakpoint
* restoration variables to prevent dangling pointers.
*/
if (bp->ctx->task)
if (bp->ctx && bp->ctx->task)
bp->ctx->task->thread.last_hit_ubp = NULL;
}
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