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

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Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:46:45 +0000
From:	Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>
To:	LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
CC:	<alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, <broonie@...nel.org>,
	<lgirdwood@...il.com>, <perex@...ex.cz>, <tiwai@...e.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: rsnd: fix a possible NULL dereference


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@...il.com>
> ---
>  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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