On 22/12/2018 11:26, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Currently rdev is dereferenced when assigning desc before rdev is null > checked, hence there is a potential null pointer dereference on rdev. > Fix this by null checking rdev first. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1476031 ("Dereference before null check") > > Fixes: 77e3e3b165db ("regulator: axp20x: add software based soft_start for AXP209 LDO3") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c > index 48af859fd053..eaa7a487924c 100644 > --- a/drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c > +++ b/drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c > @@ -436,11 +436,13 @@ static int axp20x_set_ramp_delay(struct regulator_dev *rdev, int ramp) > static int axp20x_regulator_enable_regmap(struct regulator_dev *rdev) > { > struct axp20x_dev *axp20x = rdev_get_drvdata(rdev); > - const struct regulator_desc *desc = rdev->desc; > + const struct regulator_desc *desc; > > if (!rdev) > return -EINVAL; > > + desc = rdev->desc; > + > switch (axp20x->variant) { > case AXP209_ID: > if ((desc->id == AXP20X_LDO3) && > Forgot to add in another fix, I'll send a V2.