Re: [PATCH v2] soc: ti: knav: Add a NULL pointer check for kdev in knav_pool_create

From: santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon Aug 21 2017 - 01:45:39 EST


Hi Arnd,

On 7/30/17 9:31 PM, Keerthy wrote:
knav_pool_create is an exported function. In the event of a call
before knav_queue_probe, we encounter a NULL pointer dereference
in the following line. Hence return -EPROBE_DEFER to the caller till
the kdev pointer is non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx>
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Changes in v2:

* Fixed returning an int to returning pointer.
FWIW, Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxxxxxx>

Can you please also apply this fix in your fixes branch ?