On 09/12/2021 09:58, Jiasheng Jiang wrote: > he return value of kzalloc() needs to be checked. > To avoid use of null pointer in case of the failure of alloc. > > Fixes: 876f123b8956 ("media: meson: vdec: bring up to compliance") > Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c > index 7f07a9175815..025885fcfec6 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c > @@ -234,6 +234,8 @@ void amvdec_add_ts(struct amvdec_session *sess, u64 ts, > unsigned long flags; > > new_ts = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_ts), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!new_ts) > + return; While this avoids dereferencing a NULL pointer, this error isn't propagated to the caller. And I'm not sure if that's right. Neil, what should be done in this case? Regards, Hans > new_ts->ts = ts; > new_ts->tc = tc; > new_ts->offset = offset; >