linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] serial: imx: fix a possible NULL dereference

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Date:	Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:03:03 +0100
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jslaby@...e.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] serial: imx: fix a possible NULL dereference

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 03:36:57PM +0100, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> dereference later.
> Even if the probability of this case is very low, fixing it made
> static analyzers happy.
> Solving this with of_device_get_match_data made also code simplier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Thanks
Uwe

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