[PATCH] pwm: sun4i: fix a possible NULL dereference
Alexandre Belloni
alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Thu Nov 12 06:47:01 PST 2015
Hi,
On 12/11/2015 at 08:42:12 +0100, LABBE Corentin wrote :
> of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> dereference later.
>
> Reported-by: coverity (CID 1324139)
> Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c
> index cd9dde5..3011fcc 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c
> @@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ static int sun4i_pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> const struct of_device_id *match;
>
> match = of_match_device(sun4i_pwm_dt_ids, &pdev->dev);
> + if (!match)
> + return -ENODEV;
>
This will never happen. If it is not matching, then sun4i_pwm_probe is
not called.
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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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