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

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Mon Aug 22 2016 - 02:21:16 EST


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
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~Vinod