[PATCH] tty: atmel_serial: fix a NULL pointer dereference

[Kangjie Lu]

In case dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic fails, the fix return a proper
error code to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <k...@umn.edu>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c 
b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
index 05147fe24343..cf560d05008c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
@@ -1237,8 +1237,10 @@ static int atmel_prepare_rx_dma(struct uart_port *port)
        dma_cap_set(DMA_CYCLIC, mask);
 
        atmel_port->chan_rx = dma_request_slave_channel(mfd_dev, "rx");
-       if (atmel_port->chan_rx == NULL)
+       if (atmel_port->chan_rx == NULL) {
+               ret = -EINVAL;
                goto chan_err;
+       }
        dev_info(port->dev, "using %s for rx DMA transfers\n",
                dma_chan_name(atmel_port->chan_rx));
 
@@ -1257,6 +1259,7 @@ static int atmel_prepare_rx_dma(struct uart_port *port)
 
        if (!nent) {
                dev_dbg(port->dev, "need to release resource of dma\n");
+               ret = -EINVAL;
                goto chan_err;
        } else {
                dev_dbg(port->dev, "%s: mapped %d@%p to %pad\n", __func__,
@@ -1288,6 +1291,11 @@ static int atmel_prepare_rx_dma(struct uart_port *port)
                                         sg_dma_len(&atmel_port->sg_rx)/2,
                                         DMA_DEV_TO_MEM,
                                         DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT);
+       if (!desc) {
+               dev_err(port->dev, "Preparing DMA cyclic failed\n");
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto chan_err;
+       }
        desc->callback = atmel_complete_rx_dma;
        desc->callback_param = port;
        atmel_port->desc_rx = desc;
@@ -1300,7 +1308,7 @@ static int atmel_prepare_rx_dma(struct uart_port *port)
        atmel_port->use_dma_rx = 0;
        if (atmel_port->chan_rx)
                atmel_release_rx_dma(port);
-       return -EINVAL;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static void atmel_uart_timer_callback(struct timer_list *t)
-- 
2.17.1