[PATCH] usb: gadget: aspeed: Add NULL pointer check in ast_vhub_init_dev()

Andrew Jeffery andrew at codeconstruct.com.au
Mon Mar 17 18:33:51 PDT 2025


On Mon, 2025-03-10 at 20:27 -0500, Chenyuan Yang wrote:
> The variable d->name, returned by devm_kasprintf(), could be NULL.
> A pointer check is added to prevent potential NULL pointer
> dereference.
> This is similar to the fix in commit 3027e7b15b02
> ("ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c").
> 
> This issue is found by our static analysis tool

Which tool is this? Can it be run by others (me)?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Chenyuan Yang <chenyuan0y at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at codeconstruct.com.au>



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