Re: [patch] fb: handle NULL pointers in framebuffer release

[Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:58:37PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This function is called with a potential NULL pointer in
> picolcd_init_framebuffer() and it causes a static checker warning.  This
> used to handle NULL pointers when the picolcd code was written, but a
> couple months later we added the "info->apertures" dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>

> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c
> index 67afa9c..a55e366 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c
> @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(framebuffer_alloc);
>   */
>  void framebuffer_release(struct fb_info *info)
>  {
> +	if (!info)
> +		return;
>  	kfree(info->apertures);
>  	kfree(info);
>  }