On 14/11/2019 13:22, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 15:55 +0000, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Function syscon_regmap_lookup_by_compat can return a NULL pointer, so
>
> Could you point out where that NULL pointer would come from? As far as I
> understand, syscon_regmap_lookup_by_compatible() should either return a
> negative error code, or syscon->regmap, which should never be NULL.
Maybe I was over-zealous here with the results from the static analyzer.
Re-reading the call chain it does seem like I was mistaken. So NAK this
patch.
Apologies for the noise.
>
>> the IS_ERR check on the return is incorrect. Fix this by checking for
>> IS_ERR_OR_NULL and return -ENODEV if true. This avoids a null pointer
>> dereference on gcr_regmap later on.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return (stat)")
>> Fixes: b3f1d036f26d ("reset: npcm: add NPCM reset controller driver")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/reset/reset-npcm.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/reset/reset-npcm.c b/drivers/reset/reset-npcm.c
>> index 2ea4d3136e15..9febf8bed2f6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/reset/reset-npcm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/reset/reset-npcm.c
>> @@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ static int npcm_usb_reset(struct platform_device *pdev, struct npcm_rc_data *rc)
>> of_match_device(dev->driver->of_match_table, dev)->data;
>>
>> gcr_regmap = syscon_regmap_lookup_by_compatible(gcr_dt);
>> - if (IS_ERR(gcr_regmap)) {
>> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(gcr_regmap)) {
>> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to find %s\n", gcr_dt);
>> - return PTR_ERR(gcr_regmap);
>> + return -ENODEV;
>> }
>>
>> /* checking which USB device is enabled */
>
> regards
> Philipp
>
