Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753372AbbKLN2m (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:28:42 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com ([74.125.82.51]:33843 "EHLO mail-wm0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751664AbbKLN2k (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:28:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:28:37 +0100 From: Thierry Reding To: LABBE Corentin Cc: LABBE Corentin , gnurou@gmail.com, ldewangan@nvidia.com, swarren@wwwdotorg.org, wsa@the-dreams.de, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: tegra: fix a possible NULL dereference Message-ID: <20151112132837.GF31671@ulmo> References: <1447313163-23848-1-git-send-email-clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> <20151112122923.GA31671@ulmo> <20151112125422.GA3758@Red> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1Ow488MNN9B9o/ov" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151112125422.GA3758@Red> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+102 (2ca89bed6448) (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2498 Lines: 67 --1Ow488MNN9B9o/ov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:54:22PM +0100, LABBE Corentin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:29:23PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:26:03AM +0100, LABBE Corentin wrote: > > > of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer > >=20 > > No. There is no way that of_match_device() can ever fail. The driver > > core uses the same table to match the OF device to the driver, so the > > only case where of_match_device() would return NULL is if no match was > > found, in which case the tegra_i2c_probe() function would never have > > been called in the first place. > >=20 > > Thierry > >=20 >=20 > In a parallel thread for i2c-rcar, the conclusion was different. > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/12/83 The conclusion was the same: there should be no case where this happens. The example that Uwe gave is hypothetical and not valid DT in the first place. So instead of chickening out I think it'd be better to just crash to make sure people fix the DT. On a side-note I think that platform_match() should be stricter and do something like this instead: if (dev->of_node) { if (of_driver_match_device(dev, drv)) return 1; return 0; } Thierry --1Ow488MNN9B9o/ov Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCAAGBQJWRJQBAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhynwQALybP4253cJoVmaezpJdFxQx uC/o2ZbISzEtWcRONTtFXJ0QN8kT4tXq1Q5Evy6oDR7CMjn5cnABTDngUwUvjZ4B mCz1Eng5i/BNVJi22JkKM78kENaQyj12zKPsIQ6TfV1PXk3qLTw1qqrm5elnnIft OVOmicyUBLRaAuEGFFptJ9l+xBHFKqkDymQ7St5hId5sBt6wbdv5lRuZr7TH1TO1 /Kv5fxaGi137rQaJGxz/3pVQV+uGykCMmAkVs9xKxvQlHDEGF7Si+3ybFZTILrUd 3ft794OtGzpDHA/+SRD4uxwwmhSEv2BwSVm4zaDLTxrXb5DVX3mMh3DWkZ7VSeEJ XkCkJQh8QwZeZiGQI4MlrwoRuuueSdi3uRnQcWEPtsgUxe8eJKgT9EqOI0+rkwZ/ pGnu+dKqDa6NUgVdk/e9iALkCnZpBVzw++Xqt3vgU4zKHjcBMBEbj3PLLA7yBliv 2n/KtoEx/v9jirBdc58iio3q32D3s38Vd3xr0zOYHJBpoZasSdZmEZGPVwckhKhj VN335f520nFiKS4R3Lq2tP7BPDhHC4Vz7cHn+k7MbCQsEjJI6EGGPTL6AZpxICRV ChkI7bQDLC5nXHF4tLx16rmvYnO8+1cpmNFaKpqNSz2fOmnTHkc6ueaGxc0eecpS VOF8vaIIDAjaUbtIrqiU =ayUb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1Ow488MNN9B9o/ov-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/