Hello!
This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
Coverity from a scan of next-20240307 as part of the linux-next scan project:
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan
You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:
Tue Mar 5 13:11:08 2024 +0000
f896d5e8726c ("usb: typec: ucsi: Register SOP/SOP' Discover Identity
Responses")
Coverity reported the following:
*** CID 1584245: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL)
drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c:1136 in ucsi_check_cable()
1130 }
1131
1132 ret = ucsi_register_cable(con);
1133 if (ret < 0)
1134 return ret;
1135
vvv CID 1584245: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL)
vvv Passing "con" to "ucsi_get_cable_identity", which dereferences null
"con->cable".
1136 ret = ucsi_get_cable_identity(con);
1137 if (ret < 0)
1138 return ret;
1139
1140 ret = ucsi_register_plug(con);
1141 if (ret < 0)
If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make
sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please
include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):
Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-...@chromium.org>
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1584245 ("Null pointer dereferences")
Fixes: f896d5e8726c ("usb: typec: ucsi: Register SOP/SOP' Discover Identity
Responses")
Thanks for your attention!
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Coverity-bot
