[PATCH] clk: Do not dereference potential NULL pointer

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Thu Oct 31 13:12:32 EDT 2013


On 10/31/13 05:03, Thierry Reding wrote:
> A NULL pointer may be passed to _clk_register() for the dev parameter
> (via clk_register()). Make sure not to dereference it before checking
> that it's valid.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> ---

Ugh I had this fixed but didn't send it.

Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>

>  drivers/clk/clk.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index b68a999..c0b52e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ static int _clk_register(struct device *dev, struct clk_hw *hw, struct clk *clk)
>  		hw->regmap = hw->init->regmap;
>  	else if (dev && dev_get_regmap(dev, NULL))
>  		hw->regmap = dev_get_regmap(dev, NULL);
> -	else if (dev->parent)
> +	else if (dev && dev->parent)
>  		hw->regmap = dev_get_regmap(dev->parent, NULL);
>  
>  	/* allocate local copy in case parent_names is __initdata */


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