Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 5 authors, 2017-07-08

Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: mediatek: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value

From: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-07-07 14:51:24
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mediatek, lkml


On 07/07/2017 09:11 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
Check return value from call to of_match_device()
in order to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.

In case of NULL print error message and return -ENODEV

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
---
Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
  drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 5 +++++
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
index adaaafc..6a77dea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
@@ -2408,6 +2408,11 @@ static int mtk_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
  	int i;
  
  	match = of_match_device(of_mtk_match, &pdev->dev);
+	if (!match) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to match device\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
  	soc = (struct mtk_soc_data *)match->data;
  
  	eth = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*eth), GFP_KERNEL);
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