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 the 4.4-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: coresight-checking-for-null-string-in-coresight_name_match.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 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() From: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx> commit fadf3a44e974b030e7145218ad1ab25e3ef91738 upstream. 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. 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(-) --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static int coresight_name_match(struct d 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; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/coresight-checking-for-null-string-in-coresight_name_match.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html