From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: freescale: fix potential null pointer dereference
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 17:38:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170530223842.GA11915@embeddedgus> (raw)
Add NULL check before dereferencing pointer _id_ in order to avoid
a potential NULL pointer dereference.
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1397995
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c
index 446c7b3..a10de1e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static int fsl_pq_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
const struct of_device_id *id =
of_match_device(fsl_pq_mdio_match, &pdev->dev);
- const struct fsl_pq_mdio_data *data = id->data;
+ const struct fsl_pq_mdio_data *data;
struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
struct resource res;
struct device_node *tbi;
@@ -389,6 +389,13 @@ static int fsl_pq_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct mii_bus *new_bus;
int err;
+ if (!id) {
+ dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to match device\n");
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
+ data = id->data;
+
dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "found %s compatible node\n", id->compatible);
new_bus = mdiobus_alloc_size(sizeof(*priv));
--
2.5.0
next reply other threads:[~2017-05-30 22:38 UTC|newest]
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2017-05-30 22:38 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2017-05-31 18:24 ` [PATCH] net: freescale: fix potential null pointer dereference David Miller
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