linux-kernel - [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: vf610: Fix to check for NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:24:34 -0500
From:   Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
To:     pakki001@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>,
        Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@...nel.org>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: vf610: Fix to check for NULL pointer dereference

of_match_device can return NULL if there is no matching device is found.
The patch avoids a potential NULL pointer dereference by checking for the
return value and passing the error upstream.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/vf610_nfc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/vf610_nfc.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/vf610_nfc.c
index a662ca1970e5..946abbb275c3 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/vf610_nfc.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/vf610_nfc.c
@@ -850,6 +850,8 @@ static int vf610_nfc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	of_id = of_match_device(vf610_nfc_dt_ids, &pdev->dev);
+	if (!of_id)
+		return -ENODEV;
 	nfc->variant = (enum vf610_nfc_variant)of_id->data;
 
 	for_each_available_child_of_node(nfc->dev->of_node, child) {
-- 
2.17.1