Re: [PATCH] Pinctrl: mvebu - Fix possible NULL derefrence.

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:21:43 +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote:
>> of_match_device could return NULL, and so can cause a NULL
>> pointer dereference later.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In practice, I don't see how of_match_device() can return NULL here.
> Indeed, those drivers only support Device Tree based probing, so
> of_match_device() will always return a non-NULL value.

OK you're right, this is too overly cautious.

Saliendra, sorry but I have to drop these patches.

Yours,
Linus Walleij