[PATCH 1/2] fsl/qe: NULL dereference on error in ucc_of_parse_tdm()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Jul 24 17:04:24 AEST 2017


On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:24:14AM +0000, Qiang Zhao wrote:
> On Sat 7/22/2017 3:34 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter at oracle.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 3:34 PM
> > To: Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao at nxp.com>
> > Cc: Leo Li <leoyang.li at nxp.com>; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; kernel-
> > janitors at vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fsl/qe: NULL dereference on error in ucc_of_parse_tdm()
> > 
> > If "pdev = of_find_device_by_node(np2);" fails then it would lead to a NULL
> > dereference.  This function is called from probe() and we're using managed
> > resources so we can just return without doing a manual cleanup.
> 
> You mean it will be cleaned up automatically?

Yes.  At module unload.

regards,
dan carpenter



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