platform_get_resource() may fail and return NULL, so we should better check it's return value to avoid a NULL pointer dereference a bit later in the code. This is detected by Coccinelle semantic patch. @@ expression pdev, res, n, t, e, e1, e2; @@ res = \(platform_get_resource\|platform_get_resource_byname\)(pdev, t, n); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; ... when != res == NULL e = devm_ioremap(e1, res->start, e2); Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-dra7xx.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-dra7xx.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-dra7xx.c index 3b0e58f2de58..7a3d12f7e7d9 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-dra7xx.c +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-dra7xx.c @@ -878,6 +878,9 @@ static int __init dra7xx_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) } res = platform_get_resource_byname(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, "ti_conf"); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; + base = devm_ioremap(dev, res->start, resource_size(res)); if (!base) return -ENOMEM;