Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5: Fix possible NULL pointer exception on platform_device_alloc() failure

Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-02-21T15:44:09Z

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:47 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
> During initialization of subdevices if platform_device_alloc() failed,
> returned NULL pointer will be later dereferenced. Add proper error
> paths to exynos5_clk_register_subcmu(). The return value of this
> function is still ignored because at this stage of init there is nothing
> we can do.
>
> Fixes: b06a532bf1fa ("clk: samsung: Add Exynos5 sub-CMU clock driver")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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