linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: img-mdc: fix a possible NULL dereference

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:58:51 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Cc:     dan.j.williams@...el.com, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: img-mdc: fix a possible NULL dereference

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:44:18AM +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> dereference later at line 850:
> mdma->soc = match->data;
> 
> For fixing this problem, we use of_device_get_match_data(), this will
> simplify the code a little by using a standard function for
> getting the match data.
> 
> Reported-by: coverity (CID 1324134)

The reported-by tags expects an email ID. I have modfied this to freetext
and applied
-- 
~Vinod