Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 May 2017 09:09:51 +0100 | From | Charles Keepax <> | Subject | Re: [mfd] question about potential null pointer dereference |
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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.
Thanks, Charles
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