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authorMichael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>2018-11-25 10:22:25 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-11-26 20:59:05 +0100
commit64c4c4ca6c129a4191e8e1e91b2d5d9b8d08c518 (patch)
tree045328ec356d453a8feffa414c009e646784ffc5 /drivers/staging/pi433
parent2a68ead3de431924d22997f121ae30aa0f99f356 (diff)
staging: pi433: fix potential null dereference
Add a test for successful call to cdev_alloc() to avoid potential null dereference. Issue reported by smatch. Signed-off-by: Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com> Fixes: 874bcba65f9a ("staging: pi433: New driver") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/pi433')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
index 786478671190..d72de2105053 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
@@ -1245,6 +1245,10 @@ static int pi433_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
/* create cdev */
device->cdev = cdev_alloc();
+ if (!device->cdev) {
+ dev_dbg(device->dev, "allocation of cdev failed");
+ goto cdev_failed;
+ }
device->cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;
cdev_init(device->cdev, &pi433_fops);
retval = cdev_add(device->cdev, device->devt, 1);