Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri,  8 Mar 2019 22:53:55 -0600
Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> devm_iio_trigger_alloc may fail and return NULL. The fix returns
> ENOMEM when it fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
Seems obviously correct to me.  As it's been there a 'while'
I'm not going to rush it in however. This can wait for the next
merge window.

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as
testing for the autobuilders to play with it.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c
> index c627513d9f0f..5384472b6c4d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/mxs-lradc-adc.c
> @@ -465,6 +465,8 @@ static int mxs_lradc_adc_trigger_init(struct iio_dev *iio)
>  
>  	trig = devm_iio_trigger_alloc(&iio->dev, "%s-dev%i", iio->name,
>  				      iio->id);
> +	if (!trig)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	trig->dev.parent = adc->dev;
>  	iio_trigger_set_drvdata(trig, iio);