Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Mukesh Ojha
Date: Wed Mar 27 2019 - 09:42:45 EST



On 3/12/2019 1:02 PM, Kangjie Lu wrote:
In case of_device_get_match_data fails, the fix return -ENOMEM

s/-ENOMEM/-EINVAL


Otherwise looks good to me.
Make the above correction.
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Mukesh

to avoid the NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-dwc-qos-eth.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-dwc-qos-eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-dwc-qos-eth.c
index 3256e5cbad27..344ead5949b1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-dwc-qos-eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-dwc-qos-eth.c
@@ -485,6 +485,8 @@ static int dwc_eth_dwmac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
int err;
data = of_device_get_match_data(&pdev->dev);
+ if (!data)
+ return -EINVAL;
err = stmmac_dvr_remove(&pdev->dev);
if (err < 0)