Re: [PATCH] HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 09:47:23AM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 9:10 AM Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org> wrote:

> > A while back the I2C HID implementation was split in an ACPI and OF
> > part, but the new OF driver never initialises the client pointer which
> > is dereferenced on power-up failures.

> Good catch and thanks for the fix. FWIW, I'd be OK w/
> 
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> 
> That being said, I'd be even happier if you simply removed the
> "client" from the structure and removed the error printout.
> regulator_bulk_enable() already prints error messages when a failure
> happens and thus the error printout is redundant and wastes space.

True, but that error message does not include the device that tried to
use the regulator.

I actually hit this when adding dev_dbg() to the function in question.
For such cases, it's also convenient to have struct device easily
accessible so I think it should be ok to just leave this pointer in.

Johan