On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Gregory Fong <[email protected]> wrote:

> If a failure occurs during probe, brcmstb_gpio_remove() is called. In
> remove, we call platform_get_drvdata(), but at the time of failure in
> the probe the driver data hadn't yet been set which leads to a NULL
> ptr dereference in the remove's list_for_each.  Call
> platform_set_drvdata() and set up list head right after allocating the
> priv struct to both avoid the null pointer dereference that could
> occur today.  To guard against potential future changes, check for
> null pointer in remove.
>
> Reported-by: Tim Ross <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Fong <[email protected]>
> ---
> New in v3.

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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