From: santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] soc: ti: knav: Add a NULL pointer check for kdev in knav_pool_create
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:09:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f248ff1-9972-a519-f7ff-c540a7e9f71e@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1501475496-10267-1-git-send-email-j-keerthy@ti.com>
On 7/30/2017 9:31 PM, Keerthy wrote:
> knav_pool_create is an exported function. In the event of a call
> before knav_queue_probe, we encounter a NULL pointer dereference
> in the following line. Hence return -EPROBE_DEFER to the caller till
> the kdev pointer is non-NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
>
> * Fixed returning an int to returning pointer.
Thanks. Will add it to the queue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-31 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-31 4:31 [PATCH v2] soc: ti: knav: Add a NULL pointer check for kdev in knav_pool_create Keerthy
2017-07-31 20:09 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2017-08-21 5:44 ` santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com
2017-08-21 7:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
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