[PATCH] dmaengine: Add NULL check in lpc18xx_dmamux_reserve()
Eugen Hristev
eugen.hristev at linaro.org
Sun Jun 15 23:57:34 PDT 2025
On 6/16/25 09:02, Charles Han wrote:
> The function of_find_device_by_node() may return NULL if the device
> node is not found or CONFIG_OF not defined.
> Add check whether the return value is NULL and set the error code
> to be returned as -ENODEV.
>
> Fixes: e5f4ae84be74 ("dmaengine: add driver for lpc18xx dmamux")
> Signed-off-by: Charles Han <hanchunchao at inspur.com>
> ---
> drivers/dma/lpc18xx-dmamux.c | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/lpc18xx-dmamux.c b/drivers/dma/lpc18xx-dmamux.c
> index 2b6436f4b193..ef9aed4ba173 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/lpc18xx-dmamux.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/lpc18xx-dmamux.c
> @@ -53,11 +53,16 @@ static void lpc18xx_dmamux_free(struct device *dev, void *route_data)
> static void *lpc18xx_dmamux_reserve(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,
> struct of_dma *ofdma)
> {
> - struct platform_device *pdev = of_find_device_by_node(ofdma->of_node);
> - struct lpc18xx_dmamux_data *dmamux = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> unsigned long flags;
> unsigned mux;
>
> + struct platform_device *pdev = of_find_device_by_node(ofdma->of_node);
> +
> + if (!pdev)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +
> + struct lpc18xx_dmamux_data *dmamux = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
I believe you should still declare all the variables at the beginning of
the function, even if you initialize them later.
> +
> if (dma_spec->args_count != 3) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "invalid number of dma mux args\n");
> return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
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