Patch "spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
spi-spidev-fix-possible-null-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:48:13 +0530
Subject: spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference

From: Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>

commit dd85ebf681ef0ee1fc985c353dd45e8b53b5dc1e upstream.

During the last close we are freeing spidev if spidev->spi is NULL, but just before checking if spidev->spi is NULL we are dereferencing it. Lets add a check there to avoid the NULL dereference.

---
 drivers/spi/spidev.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -651,7 +651,8 @@ static int spidev_release(struct inode *
 		kfree(spidev->rx_buffer);
 		spidev->rx_buffer = NULL;
 
-		spidev->speed_hz = spidev->spi->max_speed_hz;
+		if (spidev->spi)
+			spidev->speed_hz = spidev->spi->max_speed_hz;
 
 		/* ... after we unbound from the underlying device? */
 		spin_lock_irq(&spidev->spi_lock);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.2/spi-spidev-fix-possible-null-dereference.patch