linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.16 0285/1017] media: mtk-vcodec: potential dereference of null pointer

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Date:   Tue,  5 Apr 2022 09:19:58 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>,
        Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...gle.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.16 0285/1017] media: mtk-vcodec: potential dereference of null pointer

From: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>

[ Upstream commit e25a89f743b18c029bfbe5e1663ae0c7190912b0 ]

The return value of devm_kzalloc() needs to be checked.
To avoid use of null pointer in case of thefailure of alloc.

Fixes: 46233e91fa24 ("media: mtk-vcodec: move firmware implementations into their own files")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c
index cd27f637dbe7..cfc7ebed8fb7 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ struct mtk_vcodec_fw *mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu_init(struct mtk_vcodec_dev *dev,
 	vpu_wdt_reg_handler(fw_pdev, mtk_vcodec_vpu_reset_handler, dev, rst_id);
 
 	fw = devm_kzalloc(&dev->plat_dev->dev, sizeof(*fw), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!fw)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	fw->type = VPU;
 	fw->ops = &mtk_vcodec_vpu_msg;
 	fw->pdev = fw_pdev;
-- 
2.34.1