The entity variable was being initialized in the wrong place, before the parameters have been checked. To solve this, completely removed the entity variable and replaced it with the initialization value : &sd->entity. This will avoid dereferencing 'sd' pointer before it's being checked if it's NULL. Fixes: 61f5db549dde ("[media] v4l: Make v4l2_subdev inherit from media_entity") Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - replaced entity with &sd->entity completely as suggested drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c index 63d6b147b21e..fa9c806a8ccd 100644 --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c @@ -111,9 +111,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_device_unregister); int v4l2_device_register_subdev(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev, struct v4l2_subdev *sd) { -#if defined(CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER) - struct media_entity *entity = &sd->entity; -#endif int err; /* Check for valid input */ @@ -143,7 +140,7 @@ int v4l2_device_register_subdev(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev, #if defined(CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER) /* Register the entity. */ if (v4l2_dev->mdev) { - err = media_device_register_entity(v4l2_dev->mdev, entity); + err = media_device_register_entity(v4l2_dev->mdev, &sd->entity); if (err < 0) goto error_module; } @@ -163,7 +160,7 @@ int v4l2_device_register_subdev(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev, error_unregister: #if defined(CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER) - media_device_unregister_entity(entity); + media_device_unregister_entity(&sd->entity); #endif error_module: if (!sd->owner_v4l2_dev) -- 2.20.1