This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: dwc3: keystone: check return value 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: usb-dwc3-keystone-check-return-value.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: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:55:13 +0800 Subject: usb: dwc3: keystone: check return value From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 018047a1dba7636e1f7fdae2cc290a528991d648 ] Function devm_clk_get() returns an ERR_PTR when it fails. However, in function kdwc3_probe(), its return value is not checked, which may result in a bad memory access bug. This patch fixes the bug. Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-keystone.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-keystone.c +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-keystone.c @@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ static int kdwc3_probe(struct platform_d dev->dma_mask = &kdwc3_dma_mask; kdwc->clk = devm_clk_get(kdwc->dev, "usb"); + if (IS_ERR(kdwc->clk)) { + dev_err(kdwc->dev, "unable to get usb clock\n"); + return PTR_ERR(kdwc->clk); + } error = clk_prepare_enable(kdwc->clk); if (error < 0) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/cx25840-fix-unchecked-return-values.patch queue-4.4/usb-dwc3-keystone-check-return-value.patch queue-4.4/rtc-snvs-fix-an-incorrect-check-of-return-value.patch