[PATCH] rtc: max8998: Check for pdata presence before dereferencing

Tomasz Figa tomasz.figa at gmail.com
Mon May 20 16:05:33 EDT 2013


Hi Alessandro,

On Wednesday 15 of May 2013 17:16:08 Tomasz Figa wrote:
> Currently the driver can crash with a NULL pointer dereference if no
> pdata is provided, despite of successful registration of MFD part. This
> patch fixes the problem by adding a NULL check before dereferencing the
> pdata pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-max8998.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-max8998.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-max8998.c
> index 48b6612..d5af7ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-max8998.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-max8998.c
> @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static int max8998_rtc_probe(struct platform_device
> *pdev) info->irq, ret);
> 
>  	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "RTC CHIP NAME: %s\n", pdev->id_entry->name);
> -	if (pdata->rtc_delay) {
> +	if (pdata && pdata->rtc_delay) {
>  		info->lp3974_bug_workaround = true;
>  		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "LP3974 with RTC REGERR option."
>  				" RTC updates will be extremely slow.\n");

Since this is a fix, could you apply this patch to your fixes branch for 
3.10-rc2, please?

Best regards,
Tomasz




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