From: garsilva@embeddedor.com (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
To: linus-amlogic@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] iio: adc: meson-saradc: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:55:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96a56ec0-898e-5339-a0aa-81c6f8e96d88@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170709190843.0bfa292f@kernel.org>
On 07/09/2017 01:08 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 15:42:46 +0200
> Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
>> <garsilva@embeddedor.com> wrote:
>>> Check return value from call to of_match_device()
>>> in order to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.
>>>
>>> In case of NULL print error message and return -ENODEV
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
>> thanks for finding this. a crash here is a rather theoretical problem
>> (since all compatible strings have their corresponding match data) -
>> but it doesn't hurt either, so:
>>
>> Acked-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
> Applied.
>
Thank you, Jonathan.
> Jonathan
>>
>>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c | 5 +++++
>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c
>>> index 83da50e..07dbcc3 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c
>>> @@ -915,6 +915,11 @@ static int meson_sar_adc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>> init_completion(&priv->done);
>>>
>>> match = of_match_device(meson_sar_adc_of_match, &pdev->dev);
>>> + if (!match) {
>>> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to match device\n");
>>> + return -ENODEV;
>>> + }
>>> +
>>> priv->data = match->data;
>>>
>>> indio_dev->name = priv->data->name;
>>> --
>>> 2.5.0
>>>
>>>
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--
Gustavo A. R. Silva
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-17 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-07 6:46 [PATCH] iio: adc: meson-saradc: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-07-08 13:42 ` Martin Blumenstingl
2017-07-09 18:08 ` Jonathan Cameron
2017-07-17 4:55 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2017-07-10 19:40 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
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