we were dereferencing edid first and the NULL check was after accessing that. now we are using edid only if we know that it is not NULL. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c index 9533859..868facd 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c @@ -624,9 +624,6 @@ static struct fb_videomode *fb_create_modedb(unsigned char *edid, int *dbsize, int num = 0, i, first = 1; int ver, rev; - ver = edid[EDID_STRUCT_VERSION]; - rev = edid[EDID_STRUCT_REVISION]; - mode = kzalloc(50 * sizeof(struct fb_videomode), GFP_KERNEL); if (mode == NULL) return NULL; @@ -637,6 +634,9 @@ static struct fb_videomode *fb_create_modedb(unsigned char *edid, int *dbsize, return NULL; } + ver = edid[EDID_STRUCT_VERSION]; + rev = edid[EDID_STRUCT_REVISION]; + *dbsize = 0; DPRINTK(" Detailed Timings\n"); -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html