Here, If devm_ioremap will fail. It will return NULL. Then hpriv->base = NULL - 0x20000; 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/ata/sata_mv.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c index efc48bf..9d0cdad 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c @@ -4119,6 +4119,9 @@ static int mv_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) host->iomap = NULL; hpriv->base = devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev, res->start, resource_size(res)); + if (!hpriv->base) + return -ENOMEM; + hpriv->base -= SATAHC0_REG_BASE; hpriv->clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL); -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
