Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: img-mdc: fix a possible NULL dereference

From	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: img-mdc: fix a possible NULL dereference
Date	2016-08-22 08:30 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:44:18AM +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> dereference later at line 850:
> mdma->soc = match->data;
> 
> For fixing this problem, we use of_device_get_match_data(), this will
> simplify the code a little by using a standard function for
> getting the match data.
> 
> Reported-by: coverity (CID 1324134)

The reported-by tags expects an email ID. I have modfied this to freetext
and applied
-- 
~Vinod

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[PATCH] dmaengine: img-mdc: fix a possible NULL dereference LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2016-08-16 10:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: img-mdc: fix a possible NULL dereference Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-08-22 08:30 +0200

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