From 914d79c980ee5c33561d5b6a1c7556974527a701 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Pizzolato <mark@infocomm.com>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 22:48:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] SERIAL: Avoid potential SEGFAULT when scandir() fails on
 Linux

---
 sim_serial.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sim_serial.c b/sim_serial.c
index 613f622d..1b70ed3b 100644
--- a/sim_serial.c
+++ b/sim_serial.c
@@ -952,12 +952,12 @@ int ports = 0;
 memset(list, 0, max*sizeof(*list));
 #if defined(__linux) || defined(__linux__)
 if (1) {
-    struct dirent **namelist;
+    struct dirent **namelist = NULL;
     struct stat st;
 
     i = scandir("/sys/class/tty/", &namelist, NULL, NULL);
 
-    while (i--) {
+    while (0 < i--) {
         if (strcmp(namelist[i]->d_name, ".") &&
             strcmp(namelist[i]->d_name, "..")) {
             char path[1024], devicepath[1024], driverpath[1024];