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* [PATCH] crypto: brcm: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value
@ 2017-07-07  6:33 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2017-07-18 10:38 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2017-07-07  6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Herbert Xu, David S. Miller
  Cc: linux-crypto, 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 -ENODEV

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/bcm/cipher.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/bcm/cipher.c b/drivers/crypto/bcm/cipher.c
index 9cfd36c..f1a826f 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/bcm/cipher.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/bcm/cipher.c
@@ -4813,6 +4813,11 @@ static int spu_dt_read(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	int err;
 
 	match = of_match_device(of_match_ptr(bcm_spu_dt_ids), dev);
+	if (!match) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to match device\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
 	matched_spu_type = match->data;
 
 	if (iproc_priv.spu.num_spu > 1) {
-- 
2.5.0

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* Re: [PATCH] crypto: brcm: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value
  2017-07-07  6:33 [PATCH] crypto: brcm: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2017-07-18 10:38 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Herbert Xu @ 2017-07-18 10:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gustavo A. R. Silva
  Cc: David S. Miller, linux-crypto, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 01:33:33AM -0500, 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 -ENODEV
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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