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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@samsung.com>,
	linux-spi <linux-spi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	p.shailesh@samsung.com, ashish.kalra@samsung.com,
	Shailendra Verma <shailendra.capricorn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi - Fix possible NULL derefrence.
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:52:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170130125228.t4tva3x6y3gavn7w@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdXqvLAH6NJduThQ54Ygi91A53huUHgG0jtOtrjxyagthw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:00:28AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Shailendra Verma
> <shailendra.v@samsung.com> wrote:
> > of_match_device could return NULL, and so can cause a NULL
> > pointer dereference later.

> Can it? The driver uses DT exclusively.
> There is no legacy platform code creating "mxs-spi" platform devices.

Yeah, the changelogs on these aren't very good - there's no present
risk, though future changes could potentially cause an issue so it's not
unreasonable to do it defensively.

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-30 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20170130045527epcas2p18ca90e9cd6b0a6153bf941eec4f40ddf@epcas2p1.samsung.com>
2017-01-30  4:55 ` [PATCH] spi - Fix possible NULL derefrence Shailendra Verma
2017-01-30 10:00   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-01-30 12:52     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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