tick/broadcast: Prevent NULL pointer dereference
Dan reported that the recent changes to the broadcast code introduced
a potential NULL dereference.
Add the proper check.
Fixes: e0454311903d "tick/broadcast: Sanity check the shutdown of the local clock_event"
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index ee3cf94..52b9e19 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -409,14 +409,16 @@
break;
}
- if (cpumask_empty(tick_broadcast_mask)) {
- if (!bc_stopped)
- clockevents_shutdown(bc);
- } else if (bc_stopped) {
- if (tick_broadcast_device.mode == TICKDEV_MODE_PERIODIC)
- tick_broadcast_start_periodic(bc);
- else
- tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(bc);
+ if (bc) {
+ if (cpumask_empty(tick_broadcast_mask)) {
+ if (!bc_stopped)
+ clockevents_shutdown(bc);
+ } else if (bc_stopped) {
+ if (tick_broadcast_device.mode == TICKDEV_MODE_PERIODIC)
+ tick_broadcast_start_periodic(bc);
+ else
+ tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(bc);
+ }
}
raw_spin_unlock(&tick_broadcast_lock);
}