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SubjectRe: [PATCH][staging-next] drivers: staging: cedrus: find ctx before dereferencing it ctx
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 07:01:26PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> Currently if count is an invalid value the v4l2_info message will
> dereference a null ctx pointer to get the dev information. Fix
> this by finding ctx first and then checking for an invalid count,
> this way ctxt will be non-null hence avoiding the null pointer
> dereference.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1475337 ("Explicit null dereferenced")
>
> Fixes: 50e761516f2b ("media: platform: Add Cedrus VPU decoder driver")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>

Thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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