Re: [PATCH] ASoC: rsnd: fix a possible NULL dereference

From: Kuninori Morimoto
Date: Wed Nov 25 2015 - 18:46:58 EST



Hi LABBE

Thank you for your patch

> of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> dereference later.
> Even if the probability of this case is very low, fixing it made
> static analyzers happy.
> Solving this with of_device_get_match_data made also code simplier.
>
> Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c b/sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c
> index deed48e..54cc44c 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c
> @@ -1204,7 +1204,6 @@ static int rsnd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct rsnd_priv *priv;
> struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> struct rsnd_dai *rdai;
> - const struct of_device_id *of_id = of_match_device(rsnd_of_match, dev);
> const struct rsnd_of_data *of_data;
> int (*probe_func[])(struct platform_device *pdev,
> const struct rsnd_of_data *of_data,
> @@ -1221,11 +1220,13 @@ static int rsnd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> };
> int ret, i;
>
> + of_data = of_device_get_match_data(dev);
> + if (!of_data)
> + return 1;

return 1 ?
You want to use -EINVAL ?

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