From 2042f3c29f2f11129434de8a610878e8a15b4174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe JAILLET Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 07:50:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mfd: max8998: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference if 'max8998_i2c_parse_dt_pdata() fails (when out of memory), a NULL pointer dereference will occur in the error handling code. Return directly instead. Fixes: ee999fb3f17f("mfd: max8998: Add support for Device Tree") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Signed-off-by: Lee Jones --- drivers/mfd/max8998.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c index 4c33b8063bc3..b1d3f70782d9 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c @@ -192,10 +192,8 @@ static int max8998_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c, if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF) && i2c->dev.of_node) { pdata = max8998_i2c_parse_dt_pdata(&i2c->dev); - if (IS_ERR(pdata)) { - ret = PTR_ERR(pdata); - goto err; - } + if (IS_ERR(pdata)) + return PTR_ERR(pdata); } i2c_set_clientdata(i2c, max8998); -- 2.20.1