platform_get_resource() may fail and return NULL, so we should better check it's return value to avoid a NULL pointer dereference a bit later in the code. This is detected by Coccinelle semantic patch. @@ expression pdev, res, n, t, e, e1, e2; @@ res = platform_get_resource(pdev, t, n); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; ... when != res == NULL e = devm_ioremap_nocache(e1, res->start, e2); Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/roles/intel-xhci-usb-role-switch.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/usb/roles/intel-xhci-usb-role-switch.c b/drivers/usb/roles/intel-xhci-usb-role-switch.c index de72eed..2810212 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/roles/intel-xhci-usb-role-switch.c +++ b/drivers/usb/roles/intel-xhci-usb-role-switch.c @@ -144,6 +144,8 @@ static int intel_xhci_usb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -ENOMEM; res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; data->base = devm_ioremap_nocache(dev, res->start, resource_size(res)); if (!data->base) return -ENOMEM; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html