From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> pdev is dereferenced using platform_get_drvdata before a check to see if it is null, hence there could be a potential null pointer dereference issue. Instead, first check if pdev is null and only then deference pdev when initializing vpu. Found with static analysis by CoverityScan, CID 1357797 Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c index c9bf58c..41f31b2 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c @@ -523,9 +523,9 @@ static int load_requested_vpu(struct mtk_vpu *vpu, int vpu_load_firmware(struct platform_device *pdev) { - struct mtk_vpu *vpu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); + struct mtk_vpu *vpu; struct device *dev = &pdev->dev; - struct vpu_run *run = &vpu->run; + struct vpu_run *run; const struct firmware *vpu_fw = NULL; int ret; @@ -533,6 +533,8 @@ int vpu_load_firmware(struct platform_device *pdev) dev_err(dev, "VPU platform device is invalid\n"); return -EINVAL; } + vpu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); + run = &vpu->run; mutex_lock(&vpu->vpu_mutex); if (vpu->fw_loaded) { -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html