As warned by static code analizer checkers: drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c: drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c:93 cedrus_init_ctrls() error: potential null dereference 'ctx->ctrls'. (kzalloc returns null) The problem is that it assumes that kzalloc() will always succeed. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c index dd121f66fa2d..6a73a7841303 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c @@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ static int cedrus_init_ctrls(struct cedrus_dev *dev, struct cedrus_ctx *ctx) ctrl_size = sizeof(ctrl) * CEDRUS_CONTROLS_COUNT + 1; ctx->ctrls = kzalloc(ctrl_size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!ctx->ctrls) + return -ENOMEM; memset(ctx->ctrls, 0, ctrl_size); for (i = 0; i < CEDRUS_CONTROLS_COUNT; i++) { -- 2.19.1