Re: [PATCH] leds: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Date: Mon Mar 11 2019 - 06:09:31 EST


On 10.03.19 21:27, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> Hi Kangjie,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On 3/9/19 7:04 AM, Kangjie Lu wrote:
>> In case of_match_device cannot find a match, the fixes returns
>> -EINVAL to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Â drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c | 8 ++++++--
>> Â 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c b/drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c
>> index 7fea18b0c15d..4b0335591728 100644
>> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c
>> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c
>> @@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ static int pca9532_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>> ÂÂÂÂÂ const struct i2c_device_id *id)
>> Â {
>> ÂÂÂÂÂ int devid;
>> +ÂÂÂ const struct of_device_id *of_id;

Looks like an indention mismatch that might call for the
Great White Handkerchief ;-)


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