If allocation of struct board_info fails, return NULL from dvb_module_probe(). Fix this warning: drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:958 dvb_module_probe() error: potential null dereference 'board_info'. (kzalloc returns null) Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c index cf747d753a79..787fe06df217 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c @@ -953,6 +953,8 @@ struct i2c_client *dvb_module_probe(const char *module_name, struct i2c_board_info *board_info; board_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*board_info), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!board_info) + return NULL; if (name) strlcpy(board_info->type, name, I2C_NAME_SIZE); -- 2.14.3
