[PATCH] bus: fsl-mc: Check return value of platform_get_resource()

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Mon Aug 25 16:21:24 AEST 2025



Le 27/07/2025 à 18:24, Markus Elfring a écrit :
>> platform_get_resource() returns NULL in case of failure, so check its
>> return value and propagate the error in order to prevent NULL pointer
>> dereference.
> 
> How do you think about to add any tags (like “Fixes” and “Cc”) accordingly?
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.16-rc7#n145
> 

Fixes: 6305166c8771 ("bus: fsl-mc: Add ACPI support for fsl-mc")

> 
>>> +++ b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
>> @@ -1105,6 +1105,10 @@ static int fsl_mc_bus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>   	 * Get physical address of MC portal for the root DPRC:
>>   	 */
>>   	plat_res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
>> +
>> +	if (!plat_res)
>> +		return -ENODEV;

Before the blame commit, of_address_to_resource() was used and 
of_address_to_resource() returns -EINVAL in case no resource is found. 
Should we keep the same return instead of ENODEV ?

>> 
> I suggest to omit a blank line before the if statement.
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
> 
> 



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