[PATCH][next] drm/mediatek: avoid dereferencing a null hdmi_phy on an error message
Chunfeng Yun
chunfeng.yun at mediatek.com
Mon Dec 7 20:50:02 EST 2020
On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 15:09 +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> Currently there is a null pointer check for hdmi_phy that implies it
> may be null, however a dev_err messages dereferences this potential null
> pointer. Avoid a null pointer dereference by only emitting the dev_err
> message if hdmi_phy is non-null. It is a moot point if the error message
> needs to be printed at all, but since this is a relatively new piece of
> code it may be useful to keep the message in for the moment in case there
> are unforseen errors that need to be reported.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference after null check")
> Fixes: be28b6507c46 ("drm/mediatek: separate hdmi phy to different file")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
> drivers/phy/mediatek/phy-mtk-hdmi.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/mediatek/phy-mtk-hdmi.c b/drivers/phy/mediatek/phy-mtk-hdmi.c
> index c5c61f5a9ea0..5184054783c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/mediatek/phy-mtk-hdmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/mediatek/phy-mtk-hdmi.c
> @@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ mtk_hdmi_phy_dev_get_ops(const struct mtk_hdmi_phy *hdmi_phy)
> hdmi_phy->conf->hdmi_phy_disable_tmds)
> return &mtk_hdmi_phy_dev_ops;
>
> - dev_err(hdmi_phy->dev, "Failed to get dev ops of phy\n");
> - return NULL;
> + if (hdmi_phy)
> + dev_err(hdmi_phy->dev, "Failed to get dev ops of phy\n");
> + return NULL;
indentation: one tab before return
Thanks
> }
>
> static void mtk_hdmi_phy_clk_get_data(struct mtk_hdmi_phy *hdmi_phy,
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