Hi, On 5/29/23 17:21, Dongliang Mu wrote: > Smatch reports: > > sh_css_load_firmware() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'fw_data' > > The variable fw_data can be NULL in sh_css_load_firmware, resulting in > NULL pointer dereference. > > Fix this by moving the sanity checks before variable dereferences. > > Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@xxxxxxxxxxx> Thank you for your patch, but the same patch has already been submitted and merged into my media-atomisp branch about a week ago: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hansg/linux.git/commit/?h=media-atomisp&id=c09907049eea9f12e959fb88c02a483a4c5eee89 > --- > drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_firmware.c | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_firmware.c > index e7ef578db8ab..38b757c3df0a 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_firmware.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/sh_css_firmware.c > @@ -229,6 +229,10 @@ sh_css_load_firmware(struct device *dev, const char *fw_data, > struct sh_css_fw_bi_file_h *file_header; > int ret; > > + /* some sanity checks */ > + if (!fw_data || fw_size < sizeof(struct sh_css_fw_bi_file_h)) > + return -EINVAL; > + > firmware_header = (struct firmware_header *)fw_data; > file_header = &firmware_header->file_header; > binaries = &firmware_header->binary_header; > @@ -243,10 +247,6 @@ sh_css_load_firmware(struct device *dev, const char *fw_data, > IA_CSS_LOG("successfully load firmware version %s", release_version); > } > > - /* some sanity checks */ > - if (!fw_data || fw_size < sizeof(struct sh_css_fw_bi_file_h)) > - return -EINVAL; > - > if (file_header->h_size != sizeof(struct sh_css_fw_bi_file_h)) > return -EINVAL; >