This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
serial: max310x: Fix to avoid 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 3a10e3dd52e80b9a97a3346020024d17b2c272d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:44:14 -0500
Subject: serial: max310x: Fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
of_match_device can return a NULL pointer when matching device is not
found. This patch avoids a scenario causing NULL pointer derefernce.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
index f5bdde405627..450ba6d7996c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
@@ -1415,6 +1415,8 @@ static int max310x_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
if (spi->dev.of_node) {
const struct of_device_id *of_id =
of_match_device(max310x_dt_ids, &spi->dev);
+ if (!of_id)
+ return -ENODEV;
devtype = (struct max310x_devtype *)of_id->data;
} else {
--
2.21.0
