Re: [PATCH] clk: bcm: rpi: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

[Michal Swiatkowski]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 06:09:17PM -0600, Chenyuan Yang wrote:
> The `init.name` could be NULL. Add missing check in the
> raspberrypi_clk_register().
> This is similar to commit 3027e7b15b02
> ("ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c").
> Besides, bcm2835_register_pll_divider() under the same directory also
> has a very similar check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c b/drivers/clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c
> index 0e1fe3759530..720acc10f8aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c
> @@ -286,6 +286,8 @@ static struct clk_hw *raspberrypi_clk_register(struct raspberrypi_clk *rpi,
>  	init.name = devm_kasprintf(rpi->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
>  				   "fw-clk-%s",
>  				   rpi_firmware_clk_names[id]);
> +	if (!init.name)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  	init.ops = &raspberrypi_firmware_clk_ops;
>  	init.flags = CLK_GET_RATE_NOCACHE;

Thanks for the fix. There is a need for a fixes tag in case like that.
Please add it in commit message. Take a look here for example [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/DM3PR11MB8736BC7EF3A66720427F3775ECF22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#mbc8028620ecffb2f3a23c96130fe03708e679b25

Beside that:
Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1