Commit a1b94355 authored Jan 20, 2017 by Colin Ian King Committed by Sebastian Reichel Jan 21, 2017

power: supply: bq2415x: check for NULL acpi_id to avoid null pointer dereference



acpi_match_device can potentially return NULL, so it is prudent to
check if acpi_id is null before it is dereferenced.  Add a check
and an error message to indicate the failure.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>

parent cb190af2

drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c

+5 −0

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		@@ -1569,6 +1569,11 @@ static int bq2415x_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
		acpi_id =
		acpi_match_device(client->dev.driver->acpi_match_table,
		&client->dev);
		if (!acpi_id) {
		dev_err(&client->dev, "failed to match device name\n");
		ret = -ENODEV;
		goto error_1;
		}
		name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s-%d", acpi_id->id, num);
		}
		if (!name) {

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