Re: [PATCH] thermal: imx: fix a possible NULL dereference

From: Zhang Rui
Date: Fri Aug 19 2016 - 09:17:45 EST


On ä, 2016-08-16 at 10:51 +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> dereference later at line 472:
> data->socdata = of_id->data;
>
> For fixing this problem, we use of_device_get_match_data(), this will
> simplify the code a little by using a standard function for
> getting the match data.
>
> Reported-by: coverity (CID 1324128)
> Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>

patch applied.

thanks,
rui
> ---
> Âdrivers/thermal/imx_thermal.c | 4 +---
> Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/imx_thermal.c
> b/drivers/thermal/imx_thermal.c
> index c5547bd..e473548b 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/imx_thermal.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/imx_thermal.c
> @@ -471,8 +471,6 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, of_imx_thermal_match);
> Â
> Âstatic int imx_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> Â{
> - const struct of_device_id *of_id =
> - of_match_device(of_imx_thermal_match, &pdev->dev);
> Â struct imx_thermal_data *data;
> Â struct regmap *map;
> Â int measure_freq;
> @@ -490,7 +488,7 @@ static int imx_thermal_probe(struct
> platform_device *pdev)
> Â }
> Â data->tempmon = map;
> Â
> - data->socdata = of_id->data;
> + data->socdata = of_device_get_match_data(&pdev->dev);
> Â
> Â /* make sure the IRQ flag is clear before enabling irq on
> i.MX6SX */
> Â if (data->socdata->version == TEMPMON_IMX6SX) {