As the devm_kcalloc may return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid NULL poineter dereference. Fixes: 349dd23931d1 ("ASoC: max98373: don't access volatile registers in bias level off") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/codecs/max98373-i2c.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/max98373-i2c.c b/sound/soc/codecs/max98373-i2c.c index 3e04c7f0cce4..ec0905df65d1 100644 --- a/sound/soc/codecs/max98373-i2c.c +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/max98373-i2c.c @@ -549,6 +549,10 @@ static int max98373_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c) max98373->cache = devm_kcalloc(&i2c->dev, max98373->cache_num, sizeof(*max98373->cache), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!max98373->cache) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + return ret; + } for (i = 0; i < max98373->cache_num; i++) max98373->cache[i].reg = max98373_i2c_cache_reg[i]; -- 2.25.1