Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: mxc_nand: fix a possible NULL dereference

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

CC += devicetree@vger.kernel.org, gregkh

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:36:55AM +0100, Frans Klaver wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:03:11AM +0100, Frans Klaver wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:46 AM, LABBE Corentin
> >> <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> >> > dereference later.
> >>
> >> Did you actually run into this? It seems to me that this driver is
> >> only probed if and only if we have a match and that therefore
> >> of_match_device will always return a valid pointer (it is using the
> >> same match table). Am I missing something?
> >
> > Yes, you're missing something. The driver would probe for a dt snippet
> > like:
> >
> >         mxc_nand {
> >                 compatible = "foobar";
> >         }
> >
> > In this case dev->of_node is non-NULL but of_match_device(mxcnd_dt_ids,
> > dev) is.
> >
> > (I didn't actually test this, so there is a chance I'm wrong here. And
> > if not I wonder if it is sensible at all to match the device name on
> > driver name for of-created platform devices.)
> 
> Yea, looks like you're right. platform devices check a number of
> things to determine a match, among which is driver name if all else
> fails (platform.c, platform_match()).

Maybe something like this would help to reduce surprises:

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index f80aaaf9f610..a9fc22c86552 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -840,8 +840,8 @@ static int platform_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
 		return !strcmp(pdev->driver_override, drv->name);
 
 	/* Attempt an OF style match first */
-	if (of_driver_match_device(dev, drv))
-		return 1;
+	if (pdev->dev.of_node)
+		return of_driver_match_device(dev, drv);
 
 	/* Then try ACPI style match */
 	if (acpi_driver_match_device(dev, drv))

Maybe something similar for acpi devices is desirable, too?

Best regards
Uwe

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