[PATCH v2 0/2] Fixing bug that would segmentation fault

From: Luiz Sampaio
Date: Tue Nov 09 2021 - 17:07:35 EST


This series of patches consists of one patch fixing a simple coding style
issue and one patch fixing a bug that would cause segmentation fault.
Basically, there was a pointer that was being dereferenced without testing
if the pointer exists. This patch adds a protection, returning EFAULT in
case the pointer is NULL.

Changes in v2:
- Changed return to -EINVAL and using WARN_ON as suggested
- Note in response for Miguel's comment: for the first patch, I ran the
script './scripts/checkpatch.pl --file --terse' to see with the file
had any coding style issue. That was when I was suggested to remove
'int' from 'unsigned long' declaration

Luiz Sampaio (2):
auxdisplay: charlcd: fixing coding style issue
auxdisplay: charlcd: checking for pointer reference before
dereferencing

drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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