This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i2c: mux: demux-pinctrl: check the return value of devm_kstrdup() 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: i2c-mux-demux-pinctrl-check-the-return-value-of-devm.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 eea6baa7d02bf8f1cec56c872733fe86e15bd04c Author: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 3 20:39:14 2022 +0800 i2c: mux: demux-pinctrl: check the return value of devm_kstrdup() [ Upstream commit 7c0195fa9a9e263df204963f88a22b21688ffb66 ] devm_kstrdup() returns pointer to allocated string on success, NULL on failure. So it is better to check the return value of it. Fixes: e35478eac030 ("i2c: mux: demux-pinctrl: run properly with multiple instances") Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c index c638b2fc7fa28..647b5ff69a9cc 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c @@ -243,6 +243,10 @@ static int i2c_demux_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) props[i].name = devm_kstrdup(&pdev->dev, "status", GFP_KERNEL); props[i].value = devm_kstrdup(&pdev->dev, "ok", GFP_KERNEL); + if (!props[i].name || !props[i].value) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto err_rollback; + } props[i].length = 3; of_changeset_init(&priv->chan[i].chgset);