From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755528Ab3BDWLr (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:11:47 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f43.google.com ([209.85.214.43]:58204 "EHLO mail-bk0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754652Ab3BDWLq (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:11:46 -0500 From: Cong Ding To: Wolfram Sang , Andrew Morton , Karol Lewandowski , Kyungmin Park , Haojian Zhuang , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Cong Ding Subject: [PATCH] i2c: busses/i2c-pxa.c: fix potential null pointer dereference error Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:11:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1360015899-13706-1-git-send-email-dinggnu@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If it goes to eclk through line 1107, the variable res would be NULL. It will cause a null pointer dereference error if we call release_mem_region. Signed-off-by: Cong Ding --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c index 1034d93..eadf1a4 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c @@ -1211,7 +1211,8 @@ eremap: eclk: kfree(i2c); emalloc: - release_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res)); + if (!res) + release_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res)); return ret; } -- 1.7.9.5