Re: [PATCH] [media] VPU: mediatek: fix dereference of pdev before checking it is null

[Matthias Brugger]

On 16/11/16 20:16, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> pdev is dereferenced using platform_get_drvdata before a check to
> see if it is null, hence there could be a potential null pointer
> dereference issue. Instead, first check if pdev is null and only then
> deference pdev when initializing vpu.
>
> Found with static analysis by CoverityScan, CID 1357797
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@xxxxxxxx>

>  drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c
> index c9bf58c..41f31b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c
> @@ -523,9 +523,9 @@ static int load_requested_vpu(struct mtk_vpu *vpu,
>
>  int vpu_load_firmware(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
> -	struct mtk_vpu *vpu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> +	struct mtk_vpu *vpu;
>  	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> -	struct vpu_run *run = &vpu->run;
> +	struct vpu_run *run;
>  	const struct firmware *vpu_fw = NULL;
>  	int ret;
>
> @@ -533,6 +533,8 @@ int vpu_load_firmware(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		dev_err(dev, "VPU platform device is invalid\n");
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
> +	vpu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> +	run = &vpu->run;
>
>  	mutex_lock(&vpu->vpu_mutex);
>  	if (vpu->fw_loaded) {