[PATCH 01/22] clk: check hw and hw->dev before dereference it
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Tue Aug 4 04:00:34 CEST 2020
Hi Claudiu,
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 08:51, Claudiu Beznea
<claudiu.beznea at microchip.com> wrote:
>
> Check hw and hw->dev before dereference it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea at microchip.com>
> ---
> drivers/clk/clk.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
Why is this needed? It adds to code size and these situations should
not occur. Perhaps use assert()?
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index 0f55ba751c0f..9fa18e342eaf 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ ulong clk_generic_get_rate(struct clk *clk)
>
> const char *clk_hw_get_name(const struct clk *hw)
> {
> + if (!hw || !hw->dev)
> + return NULL;
> +
> return hw->dev->name;
> }
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
Regards,
SImon
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