Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 May 2017 03:19:33 -0500 | From | "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <> | Subject | Re: [mfd] question about potential null pointer dereference |
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Hi guys,
Quoting Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:22:58AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: >> On Tue, 23 May 2017, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: >> > The issue here is that there is a potential NULL pointer >> dereference at line >> > 37, in case function of_match_device() returns NULL. >> > >> > Maybe a patch like the following could be applied in order to avoid any >> > chance of a NULL pointer dereference: >> >> I do not believe it's possible for of_match_device() to return NULL in >> this case. >> >> However, if you wanted to submit a patch checking for it, it would not >> be rejected. > > Personally I would prefer to have a NULL pointer check in there. >
I'll send a patch shortly.
Thank you both. -- Gustavo A. R. Silva
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