4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit 64c4c4ca6c129a4191e8e1e91b2d5d9b8d08c518 ]
Add a test for successful call to cdev_alloc() to avoid potential null dereference. Issue reported by smatch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Straube straube.linux@gmail.com Fixes: 874bcba65f9a ("staging: pi433: New driver") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c index c85a805a1243..a497ec197872 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c +++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c @@ -1255,6 +1255,10 @@ static int pi433_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
/* create cdev */ device->cdev = cdev_alloc(); + if (!device->cdev) { + dev_dbg(device->dev, "allocation of cdev failed"); + goto cdev_failed; + } device->cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE; cdev_init(device->cdev, &pi433_fops); retval = cdev_add(device->cdev, device->devt, 1);