From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33227 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751563AbbLUVbz (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:31:55 -0500 Subject: patch "coresight: checking for NULL string in coresight_name_match()" added to char-misc-testing To: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, tyler.baker@linaro.org From: Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:31:39 -0800 Message-ID: <145073349953118@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled coresight: checking for NULL string in coresight_name_match() to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-testing branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >>From fadf3a44e974b030e7145218ad1ab25e3ef91738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Poirier Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:47:02 -0700 Subject: coresight: checking for NULL string in coresight_name_match() Connection child names associated to ports can sometimes be NULL, which is the case when booting a system on QEMU or when the Coresight power domain isn't switched on. This patch is adding a check to make sure a NULL string isn't fed to strcmp(), something that avoid crashing the system. Cc: # v3.18+ Reported-by: Tyler Baker Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c index e25492137d8b..93738dfbf631 100644 --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static int coresight_name_match(struct device *dev, void *data) to_match = data; i_csdev = to_coresight_device(dev); - if (!strcmp(to_match, dev_name(&i_csdev->dev))) + if (to_match && !strcmp(to_match, dev_name(&i_csdev->dev))) return 1; return 0; -- 2.6.4