From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin King Subject: [PATCH] power: supply: bq2415x: check for NULL acpi_id to avoid null pointer dereference Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:25:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20170120132506.20514-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?q?Pali=20Roh=C3=A1r?= , Sebastian Reichel , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org From: Colin Ian King acpi_match_device can potentially return NULL, so it is prudent to check if acpi_id is null before it is dereferenced. Add a check and an error message to indicate the failure. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King --- drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c index 73e2f0b..c4770a9 100644 --- a/drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c +++ b/drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c @@ -1569,6 +1569,11 @@ static int bq2415x_probe(struct i2c_client *client, acpi_id = acpi_match_device(client->dev.driver->acpi_match_table, &client->dev); + if (!acpi_id) { + dev_err(&client->dev, "failed to match device name\n"); + ret = -ENODEV; + goto error_1; + } name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s-%d", acpi_id->id, num); } if (!name) { -- 2.10.2