From patchwork Mon Mar 7 22:47:20 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 593709 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CC7140213; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:05:10 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad4D4-0006IX-Oi; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:05:06 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad40j-0007Mb-3U for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:52:21 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad40i-00008n-Kd; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:52:20 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1ad40f-0001t0-UW; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:52:17 -0800 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 049/273] iio: inkern: fix a NULL dereference on error Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:47:20 -0800 Message-Id: <1457391064-6660-50-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 In-Reply-To: <1457391064-6660-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1457391064-6660-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , Jonathan Cameron , Dan Carpenter X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Dan Carpenter commit d81dac3c1c5295c61b15293074ac2bd3254e1875 upstream. In twl4030_bci_probe() there are some failure paths where we call iio_channel_release() with a NULL pointer. (Apparently, that driver can opperate without a valid channel pointer). Let's fix it by adding a NULL check in iio_channel_release(). Fixes: 2202e1fc5a29 ('drivers: power: twl4030_charger: fix link problems when building as module') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/iio/inkern.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/iio/inkern.c b/drivers/iio/inkern.c index c8bad3c..217e930 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/inkern.c +++ b/drivers/iio/inkern.c @@ -351,6 +351,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iio_channel_get); void iio_channel_release(struct iio_channel *channel) { + if (!channel) + return; iio_device_put(channel->indio_dev); kfree(channel); }