This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
coresight: checking for NULL string in coresight_name_match()
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-testing branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From fadf3a44e974b030e7145218ad1ab25e3ef91738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:47:02 -0700
Subject: coresight: checking for NULL string in coresight_name_match()
Connection child names associated to ports can sometimes be NULL,
which is the case when booting a system on QEMU or when the Coresight
power domain isn't switched on.
This patch is adding a check to make sure a NULL string isn't fed
to strcmp(), something that avoid crashing the system.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.18+
Reported-by: Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
index e25492137d8b..93738dfbf631 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static int coresight_name_match(struct device *dev, void *data)
to_match = data;
i_csdev = to_coresight_device(dev);
- if (!strcmp(to_match, dev_name(&i_csdev->dev)))
+ if (to_match && !strcmp(to_match, dev_name(&i_csdev->dev)))
return 1;
return 0;
--
2.6.4
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