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Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 10:09:26 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
Cc:     jirislaby@kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-imx@nxp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: fix the potential bug of
 dereference null return value
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 03:49:35PM +0800, Sherry Sun wrote:
> This issue is reported by Coverity Check.
> In lpuart_probe, return value of function which returns null is
> dereferenced without checking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> index 777d54b593f8..c95e71fd2ca0 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> @@ -2589,6 +2589,9 @@ static int lpuart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	struct resource *res;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (!sdata)
> +		return -ENODEV;

How can sdata be NULL?

thanks,

greg k-h