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net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer

Since commit 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from
device property") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly
uninitialized "const char *type_name;" local variable.

On x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a "BCM4752" or "LNV4752"
acpi_device, the rfkill->type is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id:

rfkill->type = (unsigned)id->driver_data;

and there is no "type" property so device_property_read_string() will fail
and leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash.

rfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash
by initializing type_name to NULL.

Note likely sofar this has not been caught because:

1. Not many x86 machines actually have a "BCM4752"/"LNV4752" acpi_device
2. The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored

Fixes: 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from device property")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250913113515.21698-1-hansg@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

authored by

Hans de Goede and committed by
Johannes Berg
b6f56a44 e882985b

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net/rfkill/rfkill-gpio.c
··· 94 94 static int rfkill_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) 95 95 { 96 96 struct rfkill_gpio_data *rfkill; 97 - struct gpio_desc *gpio; 97 + const char *type_name = NULL; 98 98 const char *name_property; 99 99 const char *type_property; 100 - const char *type_name; 100 + struct gpio_desc *gpio; 101 101 int ret; 102 102 103 103 if (dmi_check_system(rfkill_gpio_deny_table))