From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mbrugger@suse.com (Matthias Brugger) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:49:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [media] VPU: mediatek: fix dereference of pdev before checking it is null In-Reply-To: <20161116191650.11486-1-colin.king@canonical.com> References: <20161116191650.11486-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Message-ID: <981854b7-78fc-567b-1b35-2cbf8d2b5008@suse.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 16/11/16 20:16, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > pdev is dereferenced using platform_get_drvdata before a check to > see if it is null, hence there could be a potential null pointer > dereference issue. Instead, first check if pdev is null and only then > deference pdev when initializing vpu. > > Found with static analysis by CoverityScan, CID 1357797 > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King > --- Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger > drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c > index c9bf58c..41f31b2 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c > +++ b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c > @@ -523,9 +523,9 @@ static int load_requested_vpu(struct mtk_vpu *vpu, > > int vpu_load_firmware(struct platform_device *pdev) > { > - struct mtk_vpu *vpu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); > + struct mtk_vpu *vpu; > struct device *dev = &pdev->dev; > - struct vpu_run *run = &vpu->run; > + struct vpu_run *run; > const struct firmware *vpu_fw = NULL; > int ret; > > @@ -533,6 +533,8 @@ int vpu_load_firmware(struct platform_device *pdev) > dev_err(dev, "VPU platform device is invalid\n"); > return -EINVAL; > } > + vpu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); > + run = &vpu->run; > > mutex_lock(&vpu->vpu_mutex); > if (vpu->fw_loaded) { >