linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] reset: hisilicon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:36:55 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Jiancheng Xue <xuejiancheng@...ilicon.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>
Cc:     linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] reset: hisilicon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Quoting Gustavo A. R. Silva (2018-07-25 17:47:19)
> There is a potential execution path in which function
> platform_get_resource() returns NULL. If this happens,
> we will end up having a NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Fix this by replacing devm_ioremap with devm_ioremap_resource,
> which has the NULL check and the memory region request.
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 97b7129cd2af ("reset: hisilicon: change the definition of hisi_reset_init")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> ---

Nobody has reviewed, so I guess applied to clk-next unless someone
complains.