RE: [PATCH] ASoC: test-component: fix null pointer dereference.

From: Kuninori Morimoto
Date: Sun Dec 05 2021 - 17:56:22 EST



Hi Ameer

Thank you for your patch.

> Dereferncing of_id pointer will result in exception in current
> implementation since of_match_device() will assign it to NULL.
> Adding NULL check for protection.
(snip)
> @@ -532,13 +532,16 @@ static int test_driver_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct device_node *node = dev->of_node;
> struct device_node *ep;
> const struct of_device_id *of_id = of_match_device(test_of_match, &pdev->dev);
> - const struct test_adata *adata = of_id->data;
> + const struct test_adata *adata;
> struct snd_soc_component_driver *cdriv;
> struct snd_soc_dai_driver *ddriv;
> struct test_dai_name *dname;
> struct test_priv *priv;
> int num, ret, i;
>
> + if (!of_id)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + adata = of_id->data;

But hmm...
Probing this driver without adata is strange for me.
How did probe this driver ??

Best regards
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Kuninori Morimoto