Re: [PATCH 1/7] mfd: 88pm860x: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference on i2c_new_dummy error

From: Lee Jones
Date: Tue Feb 11 2014 - 07:22:01 EST


On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> During probe the driver allocates dummy I2C device for companion chip
> with i2c_new_dummy() but it does not check the return value of this call.
>
> In case of error (i2c_new_device(): memory allocation failure or I2C
> address cannot be used) this function returns NULL which is later used
> by regmap_init_i2c().
>
> If i2c_new_dummy() fails for companion device, fail also the probe for
> main MFD driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c b/drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c
> index c9b1f6422941..e456be9a7c67 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c
> @@ -1179,6 +1179,11 @@ static int pm860x_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> chip->companion_addr = pdata->companion_addr;
> chip->companion = i2c_new_dummy(chip->client->adapter,
> chip->companion_addr);
> + if (!chip->companion) {
> + dev_err(&client->dev,
> + "Failed to allocate I2C companion device\n");
> + return -ENODEV;
> + }
> chip->regmap_companion = regmap_init_i2c(chip->companion,
> &pm860x_regmap_config);
> if (IS_ERR(chip->regmap_companion)) {

Applied, thanks.

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