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Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.2401261852360.29548@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:53:17 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
cc: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>,
Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > A while back the I2C HID implementation was split in an ACPI and OF
> > part, but the new OF driver never initialises the client pointer which
> > is dereferenced on power-up failures.
> >
> > Fixes: b33752c30023 ("HID: i2c-hid: Reorganize so ACPI and OF are separate modules")
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 5.12
> > Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-of.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-of.c b/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-of.c
> > index c4e1fa0273c8..8be4d576da77 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-of.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-of.c
> > @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ static int i2c_hid_of_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
> > if (!ihid_of)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > + ihid_of->client = client;
>
> Good catch and thanks for the fix. FWIW, I'd be OK w/
>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
I've now queued this as a fix for 6.8 ....
> That being said, I'd be even happier if you simply removed the "client"
> from the structure and removed the error printout.
> regulator_bulk_enable() already prints error messages when a failure
> happens and thus the error printout is redundant and wastes space.
.. and this can be done for 6.9.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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