This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtc: nct3018y: fix possible NULL dereference to the 6.1-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: rtc-nct3018y-fix-possible-null-dereference.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d561db60584fbb1a8acaaff0d58f647ac209c9a9 Author: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 29 23:21:27 2024 +0100 rtc: nct3018y: fix possible NULL dereference [ Upstream commit babfeb9cbe7ebc657bd5b3e4f9fde79f560b6acc ] alarm_enable and alarm_flag are allowed to be NULL but will be dereferenced later by the dev_dbg call. Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202305180042.DEzW1pSd-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240229222127.1878176-1-alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c index d43acd3920ed3..108eced8f0030 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-nct3018y.c @@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ static int nct3018y_get_alarm_mode(struct i2c_client *client, unsigned char *ala if (flags < 0) return flags; *alarm_enable = flags & NCT3018Y_BIT_AIE; + dev_dbg(&client->dev, "%s:alarm_enable:%x\n", __func__, *alarm_enable); + } if (alarm_flag) { @@ -107,11 +109,9 @@ static int nct3018y_get_alarm_mode(struct i2c_client *client, unsigned char *ala if (flags < 0) return flags; *alarm_flag = flags & NCT3018Y_BIT_AF; + dev_dbg(&client->dev, "%s:alarm_flag:%x\n", __func__, *alarm_flag); } - dev_dbg(&client->dev, "%s:alarm_enable:%x alarm_flag:%x\n", - __func__, *alarm_enable, *alarm_flag); - return 0; }