This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
regmap: fix NULL deref on lookup
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:
regmap-fix-null-deref-on-lookup.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.
>From c6df843348d6b71ea986266c12831cb60c2cf325 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 10:21:04 +0200
Subject: regmap: fix NULL deref on lookup
From: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c6df843348d6b71ea986266c12831cb60c2cf325 upstream.
Not all regmaps have a name so make sure to check for that to avoid
dereferencing a NULL pointer when dev_get_regmap() is used to lookup a
named regmap.
Fixes: e84861fec32d ("regmap: dev_get_regmap_match(): fix string comparison")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.8
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231006082104.16707-1-johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
+++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
@@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ static int dev_get_regmap_match(struct d
/* If the user didn't specify a name match any */
if (data)
- return !strcmp((*r)->name, data);
+ return (*r)->name && !strcmp((*r)->name, data);
else
return 1;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/regmap-fix-null-deref-on-lookup.patch
