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* [PATCH] drm/mgag200: fix null pointer dereference
@ 2012-07-07  9:22 Devendra Naga
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From: Devendra Naga @ 2012-07-07  9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Airlie, Dave Airlie, dri-devel, linux-kernel; +Cc: Devendra Naga

we are referencing the pointer after doing alloc_apertures,
as alloc_apertures kzallocs, the kzalloc may fail and we get a NULL.

so we need to check for NULL before we dereference this pointer

Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.c
index 93e832d..ea1024d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.c
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ static void mgag200_kick_out_firmware_fb(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 	bool primary = false;
 
 	ap = alloc_apertures(1);
+	if (!ap)
+		return;
+
 	ap->ranges[0].base = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);
 	ap->ranges[0].size = pci_resource_len(pdev, 0);
 
-- 
1.7.9.5


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