linux-kernel - [patch] drm: atmel-hlcdc: fix a NULL check

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Message-ID: <20160425090454.GA25366@mwanda>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:04:54 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] drm: atmel-hlcdc: fix a NULL check

If kmalloc() returned NULL we would end up dereferencing "state" a
couple lines later.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c
index 8df0aaf..867069b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/atmel-hlcdc/atmel_hlcdc_crtc.c
@@ -415,8 +415,9 @@ atmel_hlcdc_crtc_duplicate_state(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
 		return NULL;
 
 	state = kmalloc(sizeof(*state), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (state)
-		__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state(crtc, &state->base);
+	if (!state)
+		return NULL;
+	__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state(crtc, &state->base);
 
 	cur = drm_crtc_state_to_atmel_hlcdc_crtc_state(crtc->state);
 	state->output_mode = cur->output_mode;