From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently if the allocation of new_buf fails then a null pointer dereference occurs when assiging new_buf->vb. Avoid this by returning early on a memory allocation failure as there is not much more can be done at this point. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: 3e7f51bd9607 ("media: meson: add v4l2 m2m video decoder driver") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c index 0a1a04fd5d13..8dd1396909d7 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ vdec_queue_recycle(struct amvdec_session *sess, struct vb2_buffer *vb) struct amvdec_buffer *new_buf; new_buf = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_buf), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!new_buf) + return; new_buf->vb = vb; mutex_lock(&sess->bufs_recycle_lock); -- 2.24.0