On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Cong Ding <dinggnu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If it goes to eclk through line 1107, the variable res would be NULL. It will > cause a null pointer dereference error if we call release_mem_region. > > Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c > index 1034d93..00df535 100644 > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c > @@ -1211,7 +1211,8 @@ eremap: > eclk: > kfree(i2c); > emalloc: > - release_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res)); > + if (res) > + release_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res)); > return ret; > } > > No. I don't agree on this. Your fix can't resolve all potential issues. i2c = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pxa_i2c), GFP_KERNEL); if (!i2c) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto emalloc; } ret = i2c_pxa_probe_dt(dev, i2c, &i2c_type); if (ret > 0) ret = i2c_pxa_probe_pdata(dev, i2c, &i2c_type); if (ret < 0) goto eclk; res = platform_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); irq = platform_get_irq(dev, 0); if (res == NULL || irq < 0) { ret = -ENODEV; goto eclk; } if (!request_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res), res->name)) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto eclk; } We shouldn't jump to eclk for these error cases. Then we needn't to add checking on res. Regards Haojian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html