tree 747af1aa063a4d9173279efa3b02e093a116d9aa
parent b2ed059642875a699a195cb136b2e57e7e07cedf
author Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> 1461821694 +1000
committer Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> 1462967643 +1000

drivers/of: Add check for null property in of_remove_property()

The validity of the property input argument to of_remove_property() is
never checked within the function and thus it is possible to pass a null
value. It happens that this will be picked up in __of_remove_property()
as no matching property of the device node will be found and thus an
error will be returned, however once again there is no explicit check
for a null value. By the time this is detected 2 locks have already been
acquired which is completely unnecessary if the property to remove is
null.

Add an explicit check in the function of_remove_property() for a null
property value and return -ENODEV in this case, this is consistent with
what the previous return value would have been when the null value was
not detected and passed to __of_remove_property().

By moving an explicit check for the property paramenter into the
of_remove_property() function, this will remove the need to perform this
check in calling code before invocation of the of_remove_property()
function.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>