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* [PATCH] drm/tegra: sor: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value
@ 2017-07-07  6:11 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2017-07-07  7:42 ` Jon Hunter
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2017-07-07  6:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thierry Reding, David Airlie, Jonathan Hunter
  Cc: dri-devel, linux-tegra, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva

Check return value from call to of_match_device()
in order to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.

In case of NULL print error message and return.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c
index a8f5289..ca3d9b1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c
@@ -2538,6 +2538,10 @@ static int tegra_sor_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	int err;
 
 	match = of_match_device(tegra_sor_of_match, &pdev->dev);
+	if (!match) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to match device\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
 
 	sor = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*sor), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sor)
-- 
2.5.0

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* Re: [PATCH] drm/tegra: sor: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value
  2017-07-07  6:11 [PATCH] drm/tegra: sor: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2017-07-07  7:42 ` Jon Hunter
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jon Hunter @ 2017-07-07  7:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gustavo A. R. Silva, Thierry Reding, David Airlie
  Cc: dri-devel, linux-tegra, linux-kernel


On 07/07/17 07:11, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Check return value from call to of_match_device()
> in order to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> In case of NULL print error message and return.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c
> index a8f5289..ca3d9b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c
> @@ -2538,6 +2538,10 @@ static int tegra_sor_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	int err;
>  
>  	match = of_match_device(tegra_sor_of_match, &pdev->dev);
> +	if (!match) {
> +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to match device\n");
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +	}

Given that Tegra always uses device-tree, I believe that this cannot
happen and so this additional check is not needed.

Jon

-- 
nvpublic

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