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coresight: checking for NULL string in coresight_name_match()

Message ID 1445619050-13036-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
State Superseded
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Commit Message

Mathieu Poirier Oct. 23, 2015, 4:50 p.m. UTC
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.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>

---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
1.9.1

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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;