On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 05:05:41PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently chip is being dereferenced by the call to dev_get_drvdata
> before it is being null checked, hence we have a potential null
> pointer dereference bug. Fix this by only dereferencing it after the
> null check.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357806 ("Dereference before null check")
>
> Fixes: 9e0d39d8a6a0 ("tpm: Remove useless priv field in struct tpm_vendor_specific")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c
> index f95b9c75175b..476865d66a0e 100644
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c
> @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static irqreturn_t tpm_ioserirq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
> static int st33zp24_send(struct tpm_chip *chip, unsigned char *buf,
> size_t len)
> {
> - struct st33zp24_dev *tpm_dev = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
> + struct st33zp24_dev *tpm_dev;
> u32 status, i, size, ordinal;
> int burstcnt = 0;
> int ret;
Chip can't be NULL here, so I would prefer to see the NULL test
deleted.
Thanks,
Jason
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