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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: img-mdc: fix a possible NULL dereference
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:58:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160822062851.GO2890@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1471337058-15372-1-git-send-email-clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:44:18AM +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> dereference later at line 850:
> mdma->soc = match->data;
> 
> For fixing this problem, we use of_device_get_match_data(), this will
> simplify the code a little by using a standard function for
> getting the match data.
> 
> Reported-by: coverity (CID 1324134)

The reported-by tags expects an email ID. I have modfied this to freetext
and applied
-- 
~Vinod

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-22  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-16  8:44 [PATCH] dmaengine: img-mdc: fix a possible NULL dereference LABBE Corentin
2016-08-22  6:28 ` Vinod Koul [this message]

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