From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 993eb48fa199b5f476df8204e652eff63dd19361 upstream. If dev_set_name() fails, the dev_name() is null, check the return value of dev_set_name() to avoid the null-ptr-deref. Fixes: 1413ef638aba ("i2c: dev: Fix the race between the release of i2c_dev and cdev") Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c @@ -668,16 +668,21 @@ static int i2cdev_attach_adapter(struct i2c_dev->dev.class = i2c_dev_class; i2c_dev->dev.parent = &adap->dev; i2c_dev->dev.release = i2cdev_dev_release; - dev_set_name(&i2c_dev->dev, "i2c-%d", adap->nr); + + res = dev_set_name(&i2c_dev->dev, "i2c-%d", adap->nr); + if (res) + goto err_put_i2c_dev; res = cdev_device_add(&i2c_dev->cdev, &i2c_dev->dev); - if (res) { - put_i2c_dev(i2c_dev, false); - return res; - } + if (res) + goto err_put_i2c_dev; pr_debug("adapter [%s] registered as minor %d\n", adap->name, adap->nr); return 0; + +err_put_i2c_dev: + put_i2c_dev(i2c_dev, false); + return res; } static int i2cdev_detach_adapter(struct device *dev, void *dummy)