This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pinctrl: devicetree: fix null pointer dereferencing in pinctrl_dt_to_map to the 4.14-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: pinctrl-devicetree-fix-null-pointer-dereferencing-in.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ab6861f93c98745c54ee35f46cc94abc000a37d4 Author: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 10 16:20:56 2022 +0800 pinctrl: devicetree: fix null pointer dereferencing in pinctrl_dt_to_map [ Upstream commit 91d5c5060ee24fe8da88cd585bb43b843d2f0dce ] Here is the BUG report by KASAN about null pointer dereference: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in strcmp+0x2e/0x50 Read of size 1 at addr 0000000000000000 by task python3/2640 Call Trace: strcmp __of_find_property of_find_property pinctrl_dt_to_map kasprintf() would return NULL pointer when kmalloc() fail to allocate. So directly return ENOMEM, if kasprintf() return NULL pointer. Fixes: 57291ce295c0 ("pinctrl: core device tree mapping table parsing support") Signed-off-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110082056.2014898-1-zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/devicetree.c b/drivers/pinctrl/devicetree.c index 3a7c2d6e4d5f..b9a1080277b9 100644 --- a/drivers/pinctrl/devicetree.c +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/devicetree.c @@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ int pinctrl_dt_to_map(struct pinctrl *p, struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev) for (state = 0; ; state++) { /* Retrieve the pinctrl-* property */ propname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "pinctrl-%d", state); + if (!propname) + return -ENOMEM; prop = of_find_property(np, propname, &size); kfree(propname); if (!prop) {