Re: [PATCH] Gpu: drm: tegra - Fix possible NULL derefrence.

From	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Gpu: drm: tegra - Fix possible NULL derefrence.
Date	2017-01-30 08:20 +0100
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:23:45AM +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote:
> of_match_device could return NULL, and so can cause a NULL
> pointer dereference later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

No, this will never happen on Tegra. If you reach the ->probe() function
this pointer is guaranteed to be non-NULL.

Thierry

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[PATCH] Gpu: drm: tegra - Fix possible NULL derefrence. Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@samsung.com> - 2017-01-30 06:00 +0100
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