From: Colin Ian King Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:25:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: power: supply: bq2415x: check for NULL acpi_id to avoid null pointer dereference X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a1b94355ea3fde5e13db7ff37c0272fcde4e29b2;p=linux.git 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 Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel --- diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c index 73e2f0b79dd4f..c4770a94cc8e6 100644 --- a/drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c +++ b/drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c @@ -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) {