platform_get_resource() may fail and return NULL, so we should better check it's return value to avoid a NULL pointer dereference a bit later in the code. This is detected by Coccinelle semantic patch. @@ expression pdev, res, n, t, e, e1, e2; @@ res = platform_get_resource(pdev, t, n); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; ... when != res == NULL e = devm_ioremap_nocache(e1, res->start, e2); Fixes: 9b3b8171f7f4 ("dmaengine: sprd: Add Spreadtrum DMA driver") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/sprd-dma.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/dma/sprd-dma.c b/drivers/dma/sprd-dma.c index ccdeb8f..dba7a17 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/sprd-dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/sprd-dma.c @@ -807,6 +807,8 @@ static int sprd_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) } res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; sdev->glb_base = devm_ioremap_nocache(&pdev->dev, res->start, resource_size(res)); if (!sdev->glb_base) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html