Re: [PATCH] thermal: Fix NULL pointer dereference issue

[Zhang Rui]

On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 21:59 +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> Cooling stats variable inside thermal_cooling_device_stats_update()
> can get NULL. We should add a NULL check on stat inside for sanity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> index a6f371f..f52708f 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> @@ -754,6 +754,9 @@ void thermal_cooling_device_stats_update(struct
> thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
>  {
>  	struct cooling_dev_stats *stats = cdev->stats;
>  
> +	if (!stats)
> +		return;
> +
May I know in which case stats can be NULL?
The only possibility I can see is that cdev->ops->get_max_state() fails
in cooling_device_stats_setup(), right?

thanks,
rui

>  	spin_lock(&stats->lock);
>  
>  	if (stats->state == new_state)