[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 025/196] iio: inkern: fix a NULL dereference on error

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Mar 9 00:28:03 UTC 2016


3.19.8-ckt16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

commit d81dac3c1c5295c61b15293074ac2bd3254e1875 upstream.

In twl4030_bci_probe() there are some failure paths where we call
iio_channel_release() with a NULL pointer.  (Apparently, that driver can
opperate without a valid channel pointer).  Let's fix it by adding a
NULL check in iio_channel_release().

Fixes: 2202e1fc5a29 ('drivers: power: twl4030_charger: fix link problems when building as module')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23 at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/iio/inkern.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/inkern.c b/drivers/iio/inkern.c
index 90c8cb7..1bbb7f4 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/inkern.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/inkern.c
@@ -348,6 +348,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iio_channel_get);
 
 void iio_channel_release(struct iio_channel *channel)
 {
+	if (!channel)
+		return;
 	iio_device_put(channel->indio_dev);
 	kfree(channel);
 }
-- 
2.7.0





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