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

2017-11-17 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Friday, November 10, 2017 05:32:31 PM Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > 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

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

2017-11-10 Thread Colin King
From: Colin Ian King 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 b