This issue is reported by Coverity Check. In lpuart_probe, return value of function which returns null is dereferenced without checking. Signed-off-by: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c index 777d54b593f8..c95e71fd2ca0 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c @@ -2589,6 +2589,9 @@ static int lpuart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct resource *res; int ret; + if (!sdata) + return -ENODEV; + sport = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*sport), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sport) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.17.1