pdesc could be null but still dereference pdesc->name and it will lead to a null pointer access. So we move a null check before dereference. Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c b/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c index c94e24aadf92..83d47ff1cea8 100644 --- a/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c @@ -236,11 +236,11 @@ int aspeed_pinmux_set_mux(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned int function, const struct aspeed_sig_expr **funcs; const struct aspeed_sig_expr ***prios; - pr_debug("Muxing pin %s for %s\n", pdesc->name, pfunc->name); - if (!pdesc) return -EINVAL; + pr_debug("Muxing pin %s for %s\n", pdesc->name, pfunc->name); + prios = pdesc->prios; if (!prios) -- 2.7.4