[PATCH 3/4] base: soc: Check for NULL SoC device attributes

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Oct 10 07:13:45 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:09:26 AM CEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> If soc_device_match() is used to check the value of a specific
> attribute that is not present for the current SoC, the kernel crashes
> with a NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Fix this by explicitly checking for the absence of a needed property,
> and considering this a non-match.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> 

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>



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