This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: mvebu-uart: Fix to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference
to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus 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 hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 32f47179833b63de72427131169809065db6745e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:50:56 -0500
Subject: serial: mvebu-uart: Fix to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference
of_match_device on failure to find a matching device can return a NULL
pointer. The patch checks for such a scenrio and passes the error upstream.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
index 231f751d1ef4..7e7b1559fa36 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c
@@ -810,6 +810,9 @@ static int mvebu_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (!match)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
/* Assume that all UART ports have a DT alias or none has */
id = of_alias_get_id(pdev->dev.of_node, "serial");
if (!pdev->dev.of_node || id < 0)
--
2.21.0
