It seems that the return value of usb_ifnum_to_if() can be NULL and needs to be checked. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> --- This bug report by Andrey Konovalov usb/media/imon: null-ptr-deref in imon_probe drivers/media/rc/imon.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/imon.c b/drivers/media/rc/imon.c index 7b3f31c..0c46155 100644 --- a/drivers/media/rc/imon.c +++ b/drivers/media/rc/imon.c @@ -2517,6 +2517,11 @@ static int imon_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, mutex_lock(&driver_lock); first_if = usb_ifnum_to_if(usbdev, 0); + if (!first_if) { + ret = -ENODEV; + goto fail; + } + first_if_ctx = usb_get_intfdata(first_if); if (ifnum == 0) { -- 2.7.4