This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hwmon: (axi-fan-control) Fix possible NULL pointer dereference to the 5.10-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: hwmon-axi-fan-control-fix-possible-null-pointer-dere.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 48ea371c3cd4a30ccded797f428b9297e681ea68 Author: Dragos Bogdan <dragos.bogdan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 25 15:21:00 2023 +0200 hwmon: (axi-fan-control) Fix possible NULL pointer dereference [ Upstream commit 2a5b3370a1d9750eca325292e291c8c7cb8cf2e0 ] axi_fan_control_irq_handler(), dependent on the private axi_fan_control_data structure, might be called before the hwmon device is registered. That will cause an "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" error. Fixes: 8412b410fa5e ("hwmon: Support ADI Fan Control IP") Signed-off-by: Dragos Bogdan <dragos.bogdan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025132100.649499-1-nuno.sa@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/axi-fan-control.c b/drivers/hwmon/axi-fan-control.c index da0c3b6101f59..4b8250f2bb421 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/axi-fan-control.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/axi-fan-control.c @@ -495,6 +495,21 @@ static int axi_fan_control_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -ENODEV; } + ret = axi_fan_control_init(ctl, pdev->dev.of_node); + if (ret) { + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to initialize device\n"); + return ret; + } + + ctl->hdev = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(&pdev->dev, + name, + ctl, + &axi_chip_info, + axi_fan_control_groups); + + if (IS_ERR(ctl->hdev)) + return PTR_ERR(ctl->hdev); + ctl->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); if (ctl->irq < 0) return ctl->irq; @@ -508,19 +523,7 @@ static int axi_fan_control_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return ret; } - ret = axi_fan_control_init(ctl, pdev->dev.of_node); - if (ret) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to initialize device\n"); - return ret; - } - - ctl->hdev = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(&pdev->dev, - name, - ctl, - &axi_chip_info, - axi_fan_control_groups); - - return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(ctl->hdev); + return 0; } static struct platform_driver axi_fan_control_driver = {