[PATCH] video: fbdev: sm501fb: fix potential null pointer dereference on fbi

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz b.zolnierkie at samsung.com
Fri Nov 17 16:03:36 UTC 2017


On Friday, November 10, 2017 05:32:31 PM Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> 
> The pointer fbi is dereferenced with par = fbi->par before there is a
> null check on fbi, hence there is a potential null pointer dereference
> on a null par.  Fix this by moving the dereference after the null
> pointer check.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1461301 ("Dereference before null check")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

Patch queued for 4.15, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics



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