platform_get_resource() may fail and return NULL, so we should better check it's return value to avoid a NULL pointer dereference. Fixes: 54da3e381c2b ("serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: use UPF_IOREMAP to set up register mapping") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c index 93fe10c680fb..9d2a7856784f 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_aspeed_vuart.c @@ -429,6 +429,8 @@ static int aspeed_vuart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) timer_setup(&vuart->unthrottle_timer, aspeed_vuart_unthrottle_exp, 0); res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); + if (!res) + return -EINVAL; memset(&port, 0, sizeof(port)); port.port.private_data = vuart; -- 2.17.1