From 9634f17a2ad7a42f0b7b298ac009d1f44aca3b02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Tereschenko <alext.mkrs@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:23:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gpio: fixed potential null pointer dereference in
 mraa_gpio_read_dir()

Signed-off-by: Alex Tereschenko <alext.mkrs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Le Foll <brendan.le.foll@intel.com>
---
 src/gpio/gpio.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/gpio/gpio.c b/src/gpio/gpio.c
index 2623c26..6488fd5 100644
--- a/src/gpio/gpio.c
+++ b/src/gpio/gpio.c
@@ -605,6 +605,11 @@ mraa_gpio_read_dir(mraa_gpio_context dev, mraa_gpio_dir_t *dir)
         return MRAA_ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE;
     }
 
+    if (dir == NULL) {
+        syslog(LOG_ERR, "gpio: read_dir: output parameter for dir is invalid");
+        return MRAA_ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE;
+    }
+
     snprintf(filepath, MAX_SIZE, SYSFS_CLASS_GPIO "/gpio%d/direction", dev->pin);
     fd = open(filepath, O_RDONLY);
     if (fd == -1) {