linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: palmas: fix a possible NULL dereference

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Message-ID: <20160130005759.GB4848@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:58:00 -0800
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Cc:	mturquette@...libre.com, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: palmas: fix a possible NULL dereference

On 11/25, 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.
> 
> Reported-by: coverity (CID 1324137)
> Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
> ---

Applied to clk-next

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