linux-kernel - [PATCH] serial: max310x: Fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:44:14 -0500
From:   Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
To:     pakki001@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] serial: max310x: Fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

of_match_device can return a NULL pointer when matching device is not
found. This patch avoids a scenario causing NULL pointer derefernce.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
index f5bdde405627..450ba6d7996c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
@@ -1415,6 +1415,8 @@ static int max310x_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 	if (spi->dev.of_node) {
 		const struct of_device_id *of_id =
 			of_match_device(max310x_dt_ids, &spi->dev);
+		if (!of_id)
+			return -ENODEV;
 
 		devtype = (struct max310x_devtype *)of_id->data;
 	} else {
-- 
2.17.1