[PATCH 2/2] firmware: arm_scmi: Ensure drivers provide a probe function

Cristian Marussi cristian.marussi at arm.com
Thu Jun 24 03:08:50 PDT 2021


Hi,

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:50:59AM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> The bus probe callback calls the driver callback without further
> checking. Better be safe than sorry and refuse registration of a driver
> without a probe function to prevent a NULL pointer exception.
> 
> Fixes: 933c504424a2 ("firmware: arm_scmi: add scmi protocol bus to enumerate protocol devices")
> Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c
> index dc113ad37ad9..6c7e24935eca 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c
> @@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ int scmi_driver_register(struct scmi_driver *driver, struct module *owner,
>  {
>  	int retval;
>  
> +	if (!driver->probe)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	retval = scmi_protocol_device_request(driver->id_table);
>  	if (retval)
>  		return retval;

Reviewed-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com>
Tested-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com>

Thanks,
Cristian


> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 



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