This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: media-platform-mediatek-vpu-fix-null-ptr-dereference.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b43a95ea187b9c986c5534c459f4c0789b40843e Author: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 24 13:11:47 2023 +0100 media: platform: mediatek: vpu: fix NULL ptr dereference [ Upstream commit 3df55cd773e8603b623425cc97b05e542854ad27 ] If pdev is NULL, then it is still dereferenced. This fixes this smatch warning: drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vpu/mtk_vpu.c:570 vpu_load_firmware() warn: address of NULL pointer 'pdev' Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c index 7f1647da0ade0..af59cc52fdd73 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c @@ -562,15 +562,17 @@ static int load_requested_vpu(struct mtk_vpu *vpu, int vpu_load_firmware(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct mtk_vpu *vpu; - struct device *dev = &pdev->dev; + struct device *dev; struct vpu_run *run; int ret; if (!pdev) { - dev_err(dev, "VPU platform device is invalid\n"); + pr_err("VPU platform device is invalid\n"); return -EINVAL; } + dev = &pdev->dev; + vpu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); run = &vpu->run;