Because of the possilble failure of devm_kzalloc(), dpu_wb_conn might be NULL and will cause null pointer derefrence later. Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM. Fixes: 77b001acdcfe ("drm/msm/dpu: add the writeback connector layer") Signed-off-by: Hui Tang <tanghui20@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c index 088ec990a2f2..2a5a68366582 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_writeback.c @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ int dpu_writeback_init(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_encoder *enc, int rc = 0; dpu_wb_conn = devm_kzalloc(dev->dev, sizeof(*dpu_wb_conn), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!dpu_wb_conn) + return -ENOMEM; drm_connector_helper_add(&dpu_wb_conn->base.base, &dpu_wb_conn_helper_funcs); -- 2.17.1