This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: freescale: fix potential null pointer dereference 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: net-freescale-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.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 foo@baz Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 17:38:43 -0500 Subject: net: freescale: fix potential null pointer dereference From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 06d2d6431bc8d41ef5ffd8bd4b52cea9f72aed22 ] Add NULL check before dereferencing pointer _id_ in order to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference. Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1397995 Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fsl_pq_mdio.c @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static int fsl_pq_mdio_probe(struct plat { const struct of_device_id *id = of_match_device(fsl_pq_mdio_match, &pdev->dev); - const struct fsl_pq_mdio_data *data = id->data; + const struct fsl_pq_mdio_data *data; struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node; struct resource res; struct device_node *tbi; @@ -390,6 +390,13 @@ static int fsl_pq_mdio_probe(struct plat struct mii_bus *new_bus; int err; + if (!id) { + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to match device\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } + + data = id->data; + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "found %s compatible node\n", id->compatible); new_bus = mdiobus_alloc_size(sizeof(*priv)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/net-freescale-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch