Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751427AbdGZX4c (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:56:32 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:56464 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751078AbdGZX4b (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:56:31 -0400 From: Colin King To: Tero Kristo , Michael Turquette , Stephen Boyd , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH][next] clk: ti: check for null return in strrchr to avoid null dereferencing Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:56:27 +0100 Message-Id: <20170726235627.9163-1-colin.king@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 28 From: Colin Ian King strrchr can potentially return a null so the following strlen on the null pointer can cause a null dereference. Add a check to see if the string postfix is not null before calling strlen. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1452039 ("Dereference null return") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King --- drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c b/drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c index 255cafb18336..bd7cb9a413c9 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c +++ b/drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int ti_adpll_setup_clock(struct ti_adpll_data *d, struct clk *clock, /* Separate con_id in format "pll040dcoclkldo" to fit MAX_CON_ID */ postfix = strrchr(name, '.'); - if (strlen(postfix) > 1) { + if (postfix && strlen(postfix) > 1) { if (strlen(postfix) > ADPLL_MAX_CON_ID) dev_warn(d->dev, "clock %s con_id lookup may fail\n", name); -- 2.11.0