linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 0/2] Added debugfs node initialization and null pointer detection.

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Message-ID: <2024091404-battered-boxlike-c7c1@gregkh>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:57:16 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Yibin Ding <Yibin.Ding@...soc.com>
Cc: djakov@...nel.org, rafael@...nel.org, yibin.ding01@...il.com,
	niuzhiguo84@...il.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hao_hao.Wang@...soc.com,
	Ke.Wang@...soc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/2] Added debugfs node initialization and null
 pointer detection.

On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 06:24:18PM +0800, Yibin Ding wrote:
> From: Yibin Ding <Yibin.ding@...soc.com>
> 
> The two debugfs nodes (/sys/kernel/debug/interconnect/test_client/dst_node,
> src_node) do not initialize the character pointers before creation. For
> such uninitialized nodes, direct access will cause a crash due to accessing
> a null pointer.
> For example, directly execute the following command after booting:
>     cat /sys/kernel/debug/interconnect/test_client/dst_node.
> 
> Therefore, for the problem nodes, it is necessary to add initialization
> operations and null pointer detection when accessing.
> 
> Yibin Ding (2):
>   interconnect: Add character pointer initialization
>   debugfs: Fix crash problem caused by accessing uninitialized nodes
> 
>  drivers/interconnect/debugfs-client.c | 9 +++++++--
>  fs/debugfs/file.c                     | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

Hi,

This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
a patch that has triggered this response.  He used to manually respond
to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
kernel tree.

You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s)
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  Please read the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the
  kernel file, Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for what
  needs to be done here to properly describe this.

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