On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:57:39PM -0700, lily wrote: > uart_port_check() can return NULL pointer. Check its return value > before dereference it. Also, how did you find this issue? > > Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <floridsleeves@xxxxxxxxx> Also, your From: name does not match this one, so I can't take the patch even if it is ok :( Please do initial kernel work in drivers/staging/ to get issues like this fixed up before moving to other portions of the kernel so that basic email problems do not bother other subsystem maintainers. thanks, greg k-h