From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Commit a52879e8d7cb ("drm/dsi: Add message to packet translator") caused the following Smatch complaint: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c:328 mipi_dsi_create_packet() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'msg' (see line 326) Do the 'msg' check prior to dereferencing it. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c index c0644bb..a9812db 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c @@ -323,11 +323,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mipi_dsi_packet_format_is_long); int mipi_dsi_create_packet(struct mipi_dsi_packet *packet, const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg) { - const u8 *tx = msg->tx_buf; + const u8 *tx; if (!packet || !msg) return -EINVAL; + tx = msg->tx_buf; + /* do some minimum sanity checking */ if (!mipi_dsi_packet_format_is_short(msg->type) && !mipi_dsi_packet_format_is_long(msg->type)) -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel