From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Vladimir Zapolskiy , Florian Fainelli , Thierry Reding Subject: [PATCH 4.5 090/200] pwm: brcmstb: Fix check of devm_ioremap_resource() return code Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:11:29 -0700 Message-Id: <20160503000557.541435802@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160503000554.631204776@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160503000554.631204776@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vladimir Zapolskiy commit c5857e3f94ab2719dfac649a146cb5dd6f21fcf3 upstream. The change fixes potential oops while accessing iomem on invalid address if devm_ioremap_resource() fails due to some reason. The devm_ioremap_resource() function returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL, which makes useless a following check for NULL. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy Fixes: 3a9f5957020f ("pwm: Add Broadcom BCM7038 PWM controller support") Acked-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/pwm/pwm-brcmstb.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-brcmstb.c +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-brcmstb.c @@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ static int brcmstb_pwm_probe(struct plat res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); p->base = devm_ioremap_resource(&pdev->dev, res); - if (!p->base) { - ret = -ENOMEM; + if (IS_ERR(p->base)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(p->base); goto out_clk; }