The driver should check whether the client provides the platform_data. The following log reveals it: [ 29.610324] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.610730] Read of size 40 at addr 0000000000000000 by task bash/414 [ 29.612820] Call Trace: [ 29.613030] <TASK> [ 29.613201] dump_stack_lvl+0x56/0x6f [ 29.613496] ? kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.613754] print_report.cold+0x494/0x6b7 [ 29.614082] ? kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.614340] kasan_report+0x8a/0x190 [ 29.614628] ? kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.614888] kasan_check_range+0x14d/0x1d0 [ 29.615213] memcpy+0x20/0x60 [ 29.615454] kmemdup+0x30/0x40 [ 29.615700] lgdt3306a_probe+0x52/0x310 [ 29.616339] i2c_device_probe+0x951/0xa90 Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/lgdt3306a.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/lgdt3306a.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/lgdt3306a.c index 136b76cb4807..6f1703546500 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/lgdt3306a.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/lgdt3306a.c @@ -2177,6 +2177,11 @@ static int lgdt3306a_probe(struct i2c_client *client, struct dvb_frontend *fe; int ret; + if (!client->dev.platform_data) { + dev_err(&client->dev, "platform data is mandatory\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + config = kmemdup(client->dev.platform_data, sizeof(struct lgdt3306a_config), GFP_KERNEL); if (config == NULL) { -- 2.25.1