Connection child names associated to ports can sometimes be NULL, which is the case when booting a system on QEMU or when the Coresight power domain isn't switched on.
This patch is adding a check to make sure a NULL string isn't fed to strcmp(), something that avoid crashing the system. Cc: <[email protected]> # v3.18+ Reported-by: Tyler Baker <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]> --- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c index e25492137d8b..93738dfbf631 100644 --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static int coresight_name_match(struct device *dev, void *data) to_match = data; i_csdev = to_coresight_device(dev); - if (!strcmp(to_match, dev_name(&i_csdev->dev))) + if (to_match && !strcmp(to_match, dev_name(&i_csdev->dev))) return 1; return 0; -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
