Re: [PATCH] media: meson: add missing allocation failure check on new_buf

Kevin Hilman
2019-12-05T02:39:10Z

Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> writes:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> Currently if the allocation of new_buf fails then a null pointer
> dereference occurs when assiging new_buf->vb. Avoid this by returning
> early on a memory allocation failure as there is not much more can
> be done at this point.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return")
> Fixes: 3e7f51bd9607 ("media: meson: add v4l2 m2m video decoder driver")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>