This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
firmware: meson_sm: fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
to the 5.4-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:
firmware-meson_sm-fix-to-avoid-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f2ed165619c16577c02b703a114a1f6b52026df4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhang Shurong <zhang_shurong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 22:13:38 +0800
Subject: firmware: meson_sm: fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
From: Zhang Shurong <zhang_shurong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit f2ed165619c16577c02b703a114a1f6b52026df4 upstream.
of_match_device() may fail and returns a NULL pointer.
Fix this by checking the return value of of_match_device.
Fixes: 8cde3c2153e8 ("firmware: meson_sm: Rework driver as a proper platform driver")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Shurong <zhang_shurong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_AA08AAA6C4F34D53ADCE962E188A879B8206@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/meson/meson_sm.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/firmware/meson/meson_sm.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/meson/meson_sm.c
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ static int __init meson_sm_probe(struct
return -ENOMEM;
chip = of_match_device(meson_sm_ids, dev)->data;
+ if (!chip)
+ return -EINVAL;
if (chip->cmd_shmem_in_base) {
fw->sm_shmem_in_base = meson_sm_map_shmem(chip->cmd_shmem_in_base,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhang_shurong@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/firmware-meson_sm-fix-to-avoid-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch
