From: clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com (Corentin Labbe)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] Net: ethernet: mediatek - Fix possible NULL derefrence.
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:44:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170127124449.GB13611@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1485515980-3814-1-git-send-email-shailendra.v@samsung.com>
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 04:49:40PM +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote:
> of_match_device could return NULL, and so can cause a NULL
> pointer dereference later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@samsung.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> index 4a62ffd..4495b7b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> @@ -2369,6 +2369,10 @@ static int mtk_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> int i;
>
> match = of_match_device(of_mtk_match, &pdev->dev);
> + if (!match) {
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Error: No device match found\n");
> + return -ENODEV;
> + }
> soc = (struct mtk_soc_data *)match->data;
>
> eth = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*eth), GFP_KERNEL);
> --
Hello
You could use of_device_get_match_data() and simplifiy code
Regards
Corentin Labbe
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2017-01-27 11:19 ` [PATCH] Net: ethernet: mediatek - Fix possible NULL derefrence Shailendra Verma
2017-01-27 12:44 ` Corentin Labbe [this message]
2017-01-27 16:26 ` David Miller
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