From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently the null check on key is occurring after the strcasecmp on the key, hence there is a potential null pointer dereference on key. Fix this by checking if key is null first. Also replace the == 0 check on strcasecmp with just the ! operator. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1248787 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: fa766c9be58b ("[media] Altera FPGA firmware download module") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c b/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c index ef83a9078646..486b8aa63869 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c +++ b/drivers/misc/altera-stapl/altera.c @@ -2176,8 +2176,7 @@ static int altera_get_note(u8 *p, s32 program_size, key_ptr = &p[note_strings + get_unaligned_be32( &p[note_table + (8 * i)])]; - if ((strncasecmp(key, key_ptr, strlen(key_ptr)) == 0) && - (key != NULL)) { + if (key && !strncasecmp(key, key_ptr, strlen(key_ptr))) { status = 0; value_ptr = &p[note_strings + -- 2.19.1