This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPI: LPSS: Fix missing check in register_device_clock()
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:
acpi-lpss-fix-missing-check-in-register_device_clock.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 f6affe923e3bd1fb8f66688b21cc473896ead516
Author: huhai <huhai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 23 21:21:27 2022 +0800
ACPI: LPSS: Fix missing check in register_device_clock()
[ Upstream commit b4f1f61ed5928b1128e60e38d0dffa16966f06dc ]
register_device_clock() misses a check for platform_device_register_simple().
Add a check to fix it.
Signed-off-by: huhai <huhai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
index ded6c5c17fd7..144cda7da7ee 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
@@ -401,6 +401,9 @@ static int register_device_clock(struct acpi_device *adev,
if (!lpss_clk_dev)
lpt_register_clock_device();
+ if (IS_ERR(lpss_clk_dev))
+ return PTR_ERR(lpss_clk_dev);
+
clk_data = platform_get_drvdata(lpss_clk_dev);
if (!clk_data)
return -ENODEV;
