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-rw-r--r--drivers/nvmem/core.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 398ea7f54826..78aa06a578d0 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -970,7 +970,8 @@ static int __nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_device *nvmem,
if (cell->bit_offset || cell->nbits)
nvmem_shift_read_buffer_in_place(cell, buf);
- *len = cell->bytes;
+ if (len)
+ *len = cell->bytes;
return 0;
}
@@ -979,7 +980,8 @@ static int __nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_device *nvmem,
* nvmem_cell_read() - Read a given nvmem cell
*
* @cell: nvmem cell to be read.
- * @len: pointer to length of cell which will be populated on successful read.
+ * @len: pointer to length of cell which will be populated on successful read;
+ * can be NULL.
*
* Return: ERR_PTR() on error or a valid pointer to a buffer on success. The
* buffer should be freed by the consumer with a kfree().