Here, If devm_ioremap 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/video/fbdev/cobalt_lcdfb.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/cobalt_lcdfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/cobalt_lcdfb.c index 2d3b691..038ac69 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/cobalt_lcdfb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/cobalt_lcdfb.c @@ -308,6 +308,11 @@ static int cobalt_lcdfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) info->screen_size = resource_size(res); info->screen_base = devm_ioremap(&dev->dev, res->start, info->screen_size); + if (!info->screen_base) { + framebuffer_release(info); + return -ENOMEM; + } + info->fbops = &cobalt_lcd_fbops; info->fix = cobalt_lcdfb_fix; info->fix.smem_start = res->start; -- 2.7.4 -- 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