linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver-core: platform: Catch errors from calls to irq_get_irq

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Date:   Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:06:08 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@...tor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: platform: Catch errors from calls to irq_get_irq_data

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:

> irq_get_irq_data() can return NULL, which results in a nasty crash.
> Check its return value before passing it on to irqd_set_trigger_type().
>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Should probably be tagged for stable.

Yours,
Linus Walleij