From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:48:34 +0000 Subject: leds: dereferencing null Message-Id: <20100308124834.GB19256@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org drivers/leds/leds-88pm860x.c +268 pm860x_led_probe(28) error: dereferencing undefined: 'pdata' 255 if (pdev->dev.parent->platform_data) { 256 pm860x_pdata = pdev->dev.parent->platform_data; 257 pdata = pm860x_pdata->led; 258 } else 259 pdata = NULL; We set pdata to null here. 260 261 data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pm860x_led), GFP_KERNEL); 262 if (data = NULL) 263 return -ENOMEM; 264 strncpy(data->name, res->name, MFD_NAME_SIZE); 265 dev_set_drvdata(&pdev->dev, data); 266 data->chip = chip; 267 data->i2c = (chip->id = CHIP_PM8606) ? chip->client : chip->companion; 268 data->iset = pdata->iset; ^^^^^^^^^^^ We dereference it here. regards, dan carpenter