[PATCH] gma500: medfield: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference

Patrik Jakobsson patrik.r.jakobsson at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 03:55:05 PST 2013


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:01:48AM +0530, Syam Sidhardhan wrote:
> The use of pointer sender should be after the NULL check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Syam Sidhardhan <s.syam at samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_output.c |    7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_output.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_output.c
> index 2d4ab48..3abf831 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_output.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_dsi_output.c
> @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ void mdfld_dsi_brightness_init(struct mdfld_dsi_config *dsi_config, int pipe)
>  {
>  	struct mdfld_dsi_pkg_sender *sender =
>  				mdfld_dsi_get_pkg_sender(dsi_config);
> -	struct drm_device *dev = sender->dev;
> -	struct drm_psb_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
> +	struct drm_device *dev;
> +	struct drm_psb_private *dev_priv;
>  	u32 gen_ctrl_val;
>  
>  	if (!sender) {
> @@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ void mdfld_dsi_brightness_init(struct mdfld_dsi_config *dsi_config, int pipe)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> +	dev = sender->dev;
> +	dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
> +
>  	/* Set default display backlight value to 85% (0xd8)*/
>  	mdfld_dsi_send_mcs_short(sender, write_display_brightness, 0xd8, 1,
>  				true);

Reviewed-by: Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson at gmail.com>


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