Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_lpss: Fix missing check for return value of pci_get_slot()

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jun 14 2023 - 12:29:04 EST


On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 08:32:26AM -0700, Chenyuan Mi wrote:
> The pci_get_slot() function may return NULL, which may
> cause null pointer deference, and most other callsites of
> pci_get_slot() do Null check. Add Null check for return
> value of pci_get_slot().
>
> Found by our static analysis tool.

Please read Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst for how to
do this properly. Until then, we obviously can not take these types of
patches.

greg k-h