Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ASoC: codecs: Fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereferences | From | Steven Price <> | Date | Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:47:54 +0000 |
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On 19/03/2019 00:58, Aditya Pakki wrote: > In sirf_audio_codec_driver_probe, of_match_node may fail and return a > NULL pointer. The patch avoids a potential NULL pointer dereference.
Actually 'match' isn't used in this function... So there's no chance of a NULL dereference. You might as well remove the call.
Steve
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> > --- > sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c b/sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c > index e424499a8450..fd2bbd6a3c58 100644 > --- a/sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c > +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c > @@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ static int sirf_audio_codec_driver_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > const struct of_device_id *match; > > match = of_match_node(sirf_audio_codec_of_match, pdev->dev.of_node); > + if (!match) > + return -ENXIO; > > sirf_audio_codec = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, > sizeof(struct sirf_audio_codec), GFP_KERNEL); >
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