Patch "net: freescale: fix potential null pointer dereference" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "net: freescale: fix potential null pointer dereference" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: freescale: fix potential null pointer dereference

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-freescale-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 17:38:43 -0500
Subject: net: freescale: fix potential null pointer dereference

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>


[ Upstream commit 06d2d6431bc8d41ef5ffd8bd4b52cea9f72aed22 ]

Add NULL check before dereferencing pointer _id_ in order to avoid
a potential NULL pointer dereference.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1397995
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static int fsl_pq_mdio_probe(struct plat
 {
 	const struct of_device_id *id =
 		of_match_device(fsl_pq_mdio_match, &pdev->dev);
-	const struct fsl_pq_mdio_data *data = id->data;
+	const struct fsl_pq_mdio_data *data;
 	struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
 	struct resource res;
 	struct device_node *tbi;
@@ -389,6 +389,13 @@ static int fsl_pq_mdio_probe(struct plat
 	struct mii_bus *new_bus;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!id) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to match device\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
+	data = id->data;
+
 	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "found %s compatible node\n", id->compatible);
 
 	new_bus = mdiobus_alloc_size(sizeof(*priv));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from garsilva@embeddedor.com are

queue-4.9/pm-devfreq-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference-in-governor_store.patch
queue-4.9/net-freescale-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch