| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 5.0 091/146] serial: mvebu-uart: Fix to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference | Date | Mon, 1 Apr 2019 19:01:43 +0200 |
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5.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
commit 32f47179833b63de72427131169809065db6745e upstream.
of_match_device on failure to find a matching device can return a NULL pointer. The patch checks for such a scenrio and passes the error upstream.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c @@ -810,6 +810,9 @@ static int mvebu_uart_probe(struct platf return -EINVAL; } + if (!match) + return -ENODEV; + /* Assume that all UART ports have a DT alias or none has */ id = of_alias_get_id(pdev->dev.of_node, "serial"); if (!pdev->dev.of_node || id < 0)
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