[PATCH 3/4] soundwire: debugfs: initialize firmware_file to empty string

From: Gui-Dong Han

Date: Tue Mar 17 2026 - 15:11:17 EST


Passing NULL to debugfs_create_str() causes a NULL pointer dereference
upon reading, and creating debugfs nodes with NULL string pointers is no
longer permitted. Change the initialization of firmware_file to an
allocated empty string. Existing driver code using this field handles
empty strings correctly.

Fixes: fe46d2a4301d ("soundwire: debugfs: add interface to read/write commands")
Reported-by: yangshiguang <yangshiguang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/17647e4c.d461.19b46144a4e.Coremail.yangshiguang1011@xxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/soundwire/debugfs.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/debugfs.c b/drivers/soundwire/debugfs.c
index ccc9670ef77c..d4abe8bfca76 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/debugfs.c
@@ -358,8 +358,9 @@ void sdw_slave_debugfs_init(struct sdw_slave *slave)
debugfs_create_file("go", 0200, d, slave, &cmd_go_fops);

debugfs_create_file("read_buffer", 0400, d, slave, &read_buffer_fops);
- firmware_file = NULL;
- debugfs_create_str("firmware_file", 0200, d, &firmware_file);
+ firmware_file = devm_kstrdup(&slave->dev, "", GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (firmware_file)
+ debugfs_create_str("firmware_file", 0200, d, &firmware_file);

slave->debugfs = d;
}
--
2.43.0