[PATCH] drm/dsi: Do the 'msg' check prior to dereferencing it.
Fabio Estevam
festevam at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 16:04:34 PST 2014
From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
Commit a52879e8d7cb ("drm/dsi: Add message to packet translator") caused the
following Smatch complaint:
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c:328 mipi_dsi_create_packet()
warn: variable dereferenced before check 'msg' (see line 326)
Do the 'msg' check prior to dereferencing it.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c
index c0644bb..a9812db 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c
@@ -323,11 +323,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mipi_dsi_packet_format_is_long);
int mipi_dsi_create_packet(struct mipi_dsi_packet *packet,
const struct mipi_dsi_msg *msg)
{
- const u8 *tx = msg->tx_buf;
+ const u8 *tx;
if (!packet || !msg)
return -EINVAL;
+ tx = msg->tx_buf;
+
/* do some minimum sanity checking */
if (!mipi_dsi_packet_format_is_short(msg->type) &&
!mipi_dsi_packet_format_is_long(msg->type))
--
1.9.1
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