This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: micrel: check return value after calling platform_get_resource() to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-micrel-check-return-value-after-calling-platform.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 79ed2a1d3ba486ced8c85efb61e1f10c9cf24d0b Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 7 22:55:21 2021 +0800 net: micrel: check return value after calling platform_get_resource() [ Upstream commit 20f1932e2282c58cb5ac59517585206cf5b385ae ] It will cause null-ptr-deref if platform_get_resource() returns NULL, we need check the return value. Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8842.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8842.c index e3d7c74d47bb..5282c5754ac1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8842.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8842.c @@ -1150,6 +1150,10 @@ static int ks8842_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) unsigned i; iomem = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); + if (!iomem) { + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Invalid resource\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } if (!request_mem_region(iomem->start, resource_size(iomem), DRV_NAME)) goto err_mem_region;