platform_get_resource() may fail and return NULL, so we should better check it's return value to avoid a NULL pointer dereference a bit later in the code. This is detected by Coccinelle semantic patch. @@ expression pdev, res, n, t, e, e1, e2; @@ res = \(platform_get_resource\|platform_get_resource_byname\)(pdev, t, n); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; ... when != res == NULL e = devm_ioremap(e1, res->start, e2); Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c index 38b7f6d35759..702fdc393da0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_mdio.c @@ -397,6 +397,8 @@ static int davinci_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) data->dev = dev; res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; data->regs = devm_ioremap(dev, res->start, resource_size(res)); if (!data->regs) return -ENOMEM;