Re: [PATCH] ASoC: codecs: Fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereferences

From: Steven Price
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 12:47:59 EST


On 19/03/2019 00:58, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> In sirf_audio_codec_driver_probe, of_match_node may fail and return a
> NULL pointer. The patch avoids a potential NULL pointer dereference.

Actually 'match' isn't used in this function... So there's no chance of
a NULL dereference. You might as well remove the call.

Steve

> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c b/sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c
> index e424499a8450..fd2bbd6a3c58 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/sirf-audio-codec.c
> @@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ static int sirf_audio_codec_driver_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> const struct of_device_id *match;
>
> match = of_match_node(sirf_audio_codec_of_match, pdev->dev.of_node);
> + if (!match)
> + return -ENXIO;
>
> sirf_audio_codec = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
> sizeof(struct sirf_audio_codec), GFP_KERNEL);
>