Here, If ioremap_nocache will fail. It will return NULL.
Kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference.
This error check will avoid NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.c
index b1e6ae9..63306de 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.c
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ static int __init serial_init_chip(struct parisc_device *dev)
7272727 : 1843200;
uart.port.mapbase = address;
uart.port.membase = ioremap_nocache(address, 16);
+ if (!uart.port.membase) {
+ dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Failed to map memory\n");
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
uart.port.irq = dev->irq;
uart.port.flags = UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF;
uart.port.dev = &dev->dev;
--
1.9.1
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