[PATCH] serial: imx: fix a possible NULL dereference

From: LABBE Corentin
Date: Thu Nov 12 2015 - 02:46:30 EST


of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
dereference later.

Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
index 016e4be..22e91f7 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
@@ -1857,8 +1857,7 @@ static int serial_imx_probe_dt(struct imx_port *sport,
struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
- const struct of_device_id *of_id =
- of_match_device(imx_uart_dt_ids, &pdev->dev);
+ const struct of_device_id *of_id;
int ret;

if (!np)
@@ -1878,6 +1877,9 @@ static int serial_imx_probe_dt(struct imx_port *sport,
if (of_get_property(np, "fsl,dte-mode", NULL))
sport->dte_mode = 1;

+ of_id = of_match_device(imx_uart_dt_ids, &pdev->dev);
+ if (!of_id)
+ return -ENODEV;
sport->devdata = of_id->data;

return 0;
--
2.4.10

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