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Commit a4b34ccc authored by Milan Zamazal's avatar Milan Zamazal Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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iio: core: Prevent invalid memory access when there is no parent



commit b2a69969 upstream.

Commit 81366556 ("iio: core: Convert to use firmware node handle
instead of OF node") switched the kind of nodes to use for label
retrieval in device registration.  Probably an unwanted change in that
commit was that if the device has no parent then NULL pointer is
accessed.  This is what happens in the stock IIO dummy driver when a
new entry is created in configfs:

  # mkdir /sys/kernel/config/iio/devices/dummy/foo
  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: ...
  ...
  Call Trace:
  __iio_device_register
  iio_dummy_probe

Since there seems to be no reason to make a parent device of an IIO
dummy device mandatory, let’s prevent the invalid memory access in
__iio_device_register when the parent device is NULL.  With this
change, the IIO dummy driver works fine with configfs.

Fixes: 81366556 ("iio: core: Convert to use firmware node handle instead of OF node")
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMilan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719083208.88149-1-mzamazal@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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