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SubjectRe: [PATCH][next] iio: st_sensors: handle memory allocation failure to fix null pointer dereference
On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:28:28 +0100
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:18 PM Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> >
> > A null pointer deference on pdata can occur if the allocation of
> > pdata fails. Fix this by adding a null pointer check and handle
> > the -ENOMEM failure in the caller.
> >
> > Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return value")
>
> That's a weirdo tag, but I suppose you have aligned with the maintainers
> about this.
>
> > Fixes: 3ce85cc4fbb7 ("iio: st_sensors: get platform data from device tree")
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for
the autobuilders to play with it.

Thanks,

Jonathan

>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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