[PATCH 4.2 074/110] clkdev: fix clk_add_alias() with a NULL alias device name

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Nov 06 2015 - 15:36:39 EST


4.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 625faa6a720d26fc0db9e20b48dc0dfe4c8d8ddf upstream.

clk_add_alias() was not correctly handling the case where alias_dev_name
was NULL: rather than producing an entry with a NULL dev_id pointer,
it would produce a device name of (null). Fix this.

Fixes: 2568999835d7 ("clkdev: add clkdev_create() helper")
Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx>
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/clk/clkdev.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clkdev.c
@@ -333,7 +333,8 @@ int clk_add_alias(const char *alias, con
if (IS_ERR(r))
return PTR_ERR(r);

- l = clkdev_create(r, alias, "%s", alias_dev_name);
+ l = clkdev_create(r, alias, alias_dev_name ? "%s" : NULL,
+ alias_dev_name);
clk_put(r);

return l ? 0 : -ENODEV;


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