Here, If devm_ioremap_nocache will fail. It will return NULL. Kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference. This error check will avoid NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c index a8882bd..c3d9c8a 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_vtg.c @@ -429,6 +429,10 @@ static int vtg_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -ENOMEM; } vtg->regs = devm_ioremap_nocache(dev, res->start, resource_size(res)); + if (!vtg->regs) { + DRM_ERROR("failed to remap I/O memory\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } np = of_parse_phandle(pdev->dev.of_node, "st,slave", 0); if (np) { -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel