If riocm_get_channel() fails, then we should just return -EINVAL. Calling riocm_put_channel() will trigger a NULL dereference and generally we should call put() if the get() didn't succeed. Fixes: b6e8d4aa1110 ("rapidio: add RapidIO channelized messaging driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c b/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c index bad0e0ea4f30..cf45829585cb 100644 --- a/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c +++ b/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c @@ -1215,7 +1215,9 @@ static int riocm_ch_listen(u16 ch_id) riocm_debug(CHOP, "(ch_%d)", ch_id); ch = riocm_get_channel(ch_id); - if (!ch || !riocm_cmp_exch(ch, RIO_CM_CHAN_BOUND, RIO_CM_LISTEN)) + if (!ch) + return -EINVAL; + if (!riocm_cmp_exch(ch, RIO_CM_CHAN_BOUND, RIO_CM_LISTEN)) ret = -EINVAL; riocm_put_channel(ch); return ret; -- 2.17.1