5.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx> commit 32f47179833b63de72427131169809065db6745e upstream. 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(+) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c @@ -810,6 +810,9 @@ static int mvebu_uart_probe(struct platf 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)