Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-10-10

[PATCH 3/4] base: soc: Check for NULL SoC device attributes

From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2016-10-10 14:15:53
Also in: linux-renesas-soc, lkml

On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:09:26 AM CEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
If soc_device_match() is used to check the value of a specific
attribute that is not present for the current SoC, the kernel crashes
with a NULL pointer dereference.

Fix this by explicitly checking for the absence of a needed property,
and considering this a non-match.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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