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From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: [PATCH 4.20 078/352] staging: pi433: fix potential null dereference
Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:15:05 +0100
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4.20-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit 64c4c4ca6c129a4191e8e1e91b2d5d9b8d08c518 ]

Add a test for successful call to cdev_alloc() to avoid
potential null dereference. Issue reported by smatch.

Signed-off-by: Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>
Fixes: 874bcba65f9a ("staging: pi433: New driver")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
index c85a805a1243..a497ec197872 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
@@ -1255,6 +1255,10 @@ static int pi433_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 
 	/* create cdev */
 	device->cdev = cdev_alloc();
+	if (!device->cdev) {
+		dev_dbg(device->dev, "allocation of cdev failed");
+		goto cdev_failed;
+	}
 	device->cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;
 	cdev_init(device->cdev, &pi433_fops);
 	retval = cdev_add(device->cdev, device->devt, 1);
-- 
2.19.1