This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iio: buffer: check if a buffer has been set up when poll is called to the 3.18-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: iio-buffer-check-if-a-buffer-has-been-set-up-when-poll-is-called.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4cd140bda6494543f1c1b0ccceceaa44b676eef6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Windfeldt-Prytz <stefan.windfeldt@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:02:53 +0100 Subject: iio: buffer: check if a buffer has been set up when poll is called From: Stefan Windfeldt-Prytz <stefan.windfeldt@xxxxxxxx> commit 4cd140bda6494543f1c1b0ccceceaa44b676eef6 upstream. If no iio buffer has been set up and poll is called return 0. Without this check there will be a null pointer dereference when calling poll on a iio driver without an iio buffer. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stefan Windfeldt-Prytz <stefan.windfeldt@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ unsigned int iio_buffer_poll(struct file struct iio_dev *indio_dev = filp->private_data; struct iio_buffer *rb = indio_dev->buffer; - if (!indio_dev->info) + if (!indio_dev->info || rb == NULL) return 0; poll_wait(filp, &rb->pollq, wait); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stefan.windfeldt@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/iio-buffer-check-if-a-buffer-has-been-set-up-when-poll-is-called.patch