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SubjectRe: [PATCH] input: tegra-kbc: add NULL check on of_match_device() return value
Hi all,

Quoting Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 08:42:32AM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>
>> On 07/07/17 07:27, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> > Check return value from call to of_match_device()
>> > in order to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.
>> >
>> > In case of NULL print error message and return -ENODEV
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
>> > ---
>> > drivers/input/keyboard/tegra-kbc.c | 4 ++++
>> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/tegra-kbc.c
>> b/drivers/input/keyboard/tegra-kbc.c
>> > index 0c07e10..742c5ac 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/tegra-kbc.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/tegra-kbc.c
>> > @@ -617,6 +617,10 @@ static int tegra_kbc_probe(struct
>> platform_device *pdev)
>> > const struct of_device_id *match;
>> >
>> > match = of_match_device(tegra_kbc_of_match, &pdev->dev);
>> > + if (!match) {
>> > + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to match device\n");
>> > + return -ENODEV;
>> > + }
>>
>> Given that Tegra always uses device-tree, I believe that this cannot
>> happen and so this additional check is not needed.
>
> I think you can make it happen if you manually create the platform
> device with a name matching that of the driver. But you really shouldn't
> be doing that, so might as well let it crash and burn so that people
> realize their mistake early.
>
> Errors are easily overlooked, crashes are not.
>

I get it.

Thanks for clarifying.
--
Gustavo A. R. Silva






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