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) && -- 2.19.1