Re: [PATCH RFC v1] clk: Fix potential NULL dereference in clk_fetch_parent_index()

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Martin Blumenstingl (2019-08-15 23:48:08)
> > > I have seen the original crash when I was testing an MMC driver which
> > > is not upstream yet on v5.3-rc4. I'm not sure whether this fix is
> > > "correct" (it fixes the crash for me) or where to point the Fixes tag
> > > to, it may be one of:
> > > - fc0c209c147f ("clk: Allow parents to be specified without string names")
> > > - 1a079560b145 ("clk: Cache core in clk_fetch_parent_index() without names")
> > >
> > > This is meant to be applied on top of v5.3-rc4.
> > >
> >
> > Ah ok. I thought that strcmp() would ignore NULL arguments, but
> > apparently not. I can apply this to clk-fixes.
> at least ARM [0] and the generic [1] implementations don't
> 
> I did not bisect this so do you have any suggestion for a Fixes tag? I
> mentioned two candidates above, but I'm not sure which one to use
> just let me know, then I'll resend with the fixes tag so you can take
> it through clk-fixes
> 
> 

I added the fixes tag for the first one, where it was broken, i.e.
fc0c209c147f. Thanks.