Re: [PATCH] m68k: let clk_enable() return immediately if clk is NULL

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Dec 28 2020 - 02:49:23 EST


Hi Defang,

On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 3:08 AM Defang Bo <bodefang@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Similar to commit<742859adc721>("m68k: let clk_disable() return immediately if clk is NULL").
> there should be a check for clk to prevent NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Defang Bo <bodefang@xxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/arch/m68k/coldfire/clk.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/coldfire/clk.c
> @@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(clk_get);
> int clk_enable(struct clk *clk)
> {
> unsigned long flags;

Please keep the blank line between variable declarations and
statements (no complaint from scripts/checkpatch.pl? See
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
).

> + if (!clk)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> spin_lock_irqsave(&clk_lock, flags);
> if ((clk->enabled++ == 0) && clk->clk_ops)
> clk->clk_ops->enable(clk);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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