Re: [PATCH 1/1] video: omapdss: Fix potential null pointer dereference
From: Sachin Kamat <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-20 09:21:40
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Sachin Kamat [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
kmalloc can return null. Add a check to avoid potential null pointer dereference error when the pointer is accessed later. Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <redacted> --- drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c index 99af9e88b2d8..2f0822ee3ff9 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c@@ -121,9 +121,11 @@ static void __init omapdss_add_to_list(struct device_node *node, bool root) { struct dss_conv_node *n = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dss_conv_node), GFP_KERNEL); - n->node = node; - n->root = root; - list_add(&n->list, &dss_conv_list); + if (n) { + n->node = node; + n->root = root; + list_add(&n->list, &dss_conv_list); + } } static bool __init omapdss_list_contains(const struct device_node *node) --1.7.9.5
Gentle ping.. -- Regards, Sachin.