From: Joe Moriarty Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:51:42 +0000 (-0500) Subject: drm: NULL pointer dereference [null-pointer-deref] (CWE 476) problem X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22a07038c0eaf4d1315a493ce66dcd255accba19;p=linux.git drm: NULL pointer dereference [null-pointer-deref] (CWE 476) problem The Parfait (version 2.1.0) static code analysis tool found the following NULL pointer derefernce problem. - drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c The call to drm_dp_calculate_rad() in function drm_dp_port_setup_pdt() could result in a NULL pointer being returned to port->mstb due to a failure to allocate memory for port->mstb. Signed-off-by: Joe Moriarty Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180212195144.98323-3-joe.moriarty@oracle.com --- diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c index 36df7df5fe1a0..6fac4129e6a25 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c @@ -1082,10 +1082,12 @@ static bool drm_dp_port_setup_pdt(struct drm_dp_mst_port *port) lct = drm_dp_calculate_rad(port, rad); port->mstb = drm_dp_add_mst_branch_device(lct, rad); - port->mstb->mgr = port->mgr; - port->mstb->port_parent = port; + if (port->mstb) { + port->mstb->mgr = port->mgr; + port->mstb->port_parent = port; - send_link = true; + send_link = true; + } break; } return send_link;