From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> It is possible that the pointer disk can be null and hence we can get a null pointer deference when accessing disk->flags. Add a null pointer check to avoid the dereference. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1461133 ("Explicit null dereferenced") Fixes: 8ddcd653257c ("block: introduce GENHD_FL_HIDDEN") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index d85dcc701d76..42908a7186cd 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ struct gendisk *get_gendisk(dev_t devt, int *partno) spin_unlock_bh(&ext_devt_lock); } - if (unlikely(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) { + if (disk && unlikely(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) { put_disk(disk); disk = NULL; } -- 2.14.1