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

From: 한진구
Date: Wed May 15 2013 - 21:54:16 EST


Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:16 AM, 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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>

CC'ed Andrew Morton

Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Jingoo Han

> ---
> 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");
> --
> 1.8.2.1
>
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