From: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fb: handle NULL pointers in framebuffer release
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 15:05:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC4E5C9.1070408@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120514205837.GE20836@elgon.mountain>
On 05/14/2012 08:58 PM, 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>
Applied.
Thanks,
Florian Tobias Schandinat
>
> 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);
> }
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-29 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-14 20:58 [patch] fb: handle NULL pointers in framebuffer release Dan Carpenter
2012-05-14 21:29 ` Marcin Slusarz
2012-05-15 7:20 ` Hein Tibosch
2012-05-15 7:29 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-05-29 15:05 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat [this message]
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