From: Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@synaptics.com>
To: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Cc: "kjlu@umn.edu" <kjlu@umn.edu>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: berlin: Fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 05:29:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190319132152.7e1fef48@xhacker.debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190318233131.9642-1-pakki001@umn.edu>
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:31:29 -0500 Aditya Pakki wrote:
>
>
> of_match_device can return a NULL value when the matching device is
This could not happen. If the probe is called, it means OF registered a
device with a valid compatible string, so match cannot be NULL.
> not found. The patch avoids a potential dereference in such scenario.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
> ---
> drivers/pinctrl/berlin/berlin-bg4ct.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/berlin/berlin-bg4ct.c b/drivers/pinctrl/berlin/berlin-bg4ct.c
> index 6a7fe929a68b..2d5e82938ef9 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/berlin/berlin-bg4ct.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/berlin/berlin-bg4ct.c
> @@ -456,6 +456,9 @@ static int berlin4ct_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct resource *res;
> void __iomem *base;
>
> + if (!match)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> rmconfig = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*rmconfig), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!rmconfig)
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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2019-03-18 23:31 [PATCH] pinctrl: berlin: Fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference Aditya Pakki
2019-03-19 5:29 ` Jisheng Zhang [this message]
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