Re: [PATCH] reset: hisilicon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Jul 25 2018 - 19:46:02 EST


Quoting Gustavo A. R. Silva (2018-07-18 18:58:45)
> There is a potential execution path in which function
> platform_get_resource() returns NULL. If this happens,
> we will end up having a NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Fix this by adding asanity check in order to avoid a
> NULL pointer dereference.
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 97b7129cd2af ("reset: hisilicon: change the definition of hisi_reset_init")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c b/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c
> index 2a5015c..5dfb48b 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/hisilicon/reset.c
> @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ struct hisi_reset_controller *hisi_reset_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return NULL;
>
> res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> + if (!res)
> + return NULL;
> +
> rstc->membase = devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev,
> res->start, resource_size(res));

Why can't we use devm_ioremap_resource() here instead?