The heap name can be used for debugging but otherwise does not seem to be required and no other part of the code will fail if left NULL except here. We can make it required and check for it at some point, for now lets just prevent this from causing a NULL pointer exception. Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@xxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c index bba5f682bc25..14e48f6eb734 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static int ion_query_heaps(struct ion_heap_query *query) max_cnt = query->cnt; plist_for_each_entry(heap, &dev->heaps, node) { - strncpy(hdata.name, heap->name, MAX_HEAP_NAME); + strncpy(hdata.name, heap->name ?: "(null)", MAX_HEAP_NAME); hdata.name[sizeof(hdata.name) - 1] = '\0'; hdata.type = heap->type; hdata.heap_id = heap->id; -- 2.19.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel