[PATCH v2] video: fbdev: Check for null res pointer

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Mon Dec 20 00:29:56 PST 2021


Hi Jiasheng,

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 9:19 AM Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng at iscas.ac.cn> wrote:
> The return value of platform_get_resource() needs to be checked.
> To avoid use of error pointer in case that there is no suitable resource.

Thanks for your patch!

> Fixes: f7018c213502 ("video: move fbdev to drivers/video/fbdev")

That can't be the real introducer of the "bug"...

> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng at iscas.ac.cn>

> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
> @@ -1083,6 +1083,8 @@ static int imxfb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         struct resource *res;
>
>         res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> +       if (!res)
> +               return -EINVAL;

This cannot happen, as imxfb_remove() can only be called if
imxfb_probe() succeeded.  imxfb_probe() does check the result of
platform_get_resource(), and fails if the resource was not found.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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