Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Krzysztof Kozlowski
authored
Interrupt handler processes multiple message write requests one after
another, till the driver message queue is drained. However if driver
encounters a read message without preceding START, it stops the I2C
transfer as it is an invalid condition for the controller. At least the
comment describes a requirement "the controller forces us to send a new
START when we change direction". This stop results in clearing the
message queue (i2c->msg = NULL).
The code however immediately jumped back to label "retry_write" which
dereferenced the "i2c->msg" making it a possible NULL pointer
dereference.
The Coverity analysis:
1. Condition !is_msgend(i2c), taking false branch.
if (!is_msgend(i2c)) {
2. Condition !is_lastmsg(i2c), taking true branch.
} else if (!is_lastmsg(i2c)) {
3. Condition i2c->msg->flags & 1, taking true branch.
if (i2c->msg->flags & I2C_M_RD) {
4. write_zero_model: Passing i2c to s3c24xx_i2c_stop, which sets i...