From: Gustavo A. R. Silva Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 01:55:15 +0000 (-0500) Subject: drm/gma500: fix potential NULL pointer dereference dereference X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c2c42eb47f2e2272e0cc244751cd312e18d5142;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git drm/gma500: fix potential NULL pointer dereference dereference NULL check at line 528: if (!sender || !data_out || !len_out) {, implies that pointer _sender_ might be NULL. Move pointer _sender_ dereference after NULL check in order to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference. This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170812015515.GA8360@embeddedgus --- diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_pkg_sender.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_pkg_sender.c index 1616af209bfc..c50534c923df 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_pkg_sender.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_pkg_sender.c @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static int __read_panel_data(struct mdfld_dsi_pkg_sender *sender, u8 data_type, u8 *data, u16 len, u32 *data_out, u16 len_out, bool hs) { unsigned long flags; - struct drm_device *dev = sender->dev; + struct drm_device *dev; int i; u32 gen_data_reg; int retry = MDFLD_DSI_READ_MAX_COUNT; @@ -530,6 +530,8 @@ static int __read_panel_data(struct mdfld_dsi_pkg_sender *sender, u8 data_type, return -EINVAL; } + dev = sender->dev; + /** * do reading. * 0) send out generic read request