From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Pointer port is dereferenced on port->private_data when assigning pointer pdata before port is null checked, leading to a potential null pointer dereference. Fix this by assigning pdata after the null pointer check on port. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1475434 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 3b209d253e7f ("serial-uartlite: Do not use static struct uart_driver out of probe()") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c b/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c index 4a7989df5ff5..0eff33cd9f24 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c @@ -715,10 +715,12 @@ static int ulite_release(struct device *dev) static int __maybe_unused ulite_suspend(struct device *dev) { struct uart_port *port = dev_get_drvdata(dev); - struct uartlite_data *pdata = port->private_data; - if (port) + if (port) { + struct uartlite_data *pdata = port->private_data; + uart_suspend_port(pdata->ulite_uart_driver, port); + } return 0; } -- 2.19.1