The patch 623a6143a845("mailbox: mediatek: Add Mediatek CMDQ driver") introduce the following static checker warning: drivers/mailbox/mtk-cmdq-mailbox.c:366 cmdq_mbox_send_data() error: potential null dereference 'task'. (kzalloc returns null)
Fixes: 623a6143a845 ("mailbox: mediatek: Add Mediatek CMDQ driver") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Houlong Wei <houlong....@mediatek.com> --- drivers/mailbox/mtk-cmdq-mailbox.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mtk-cmdq-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mtk-cmdq-mailbox.c index aec46d5..f7cc29c 100644 --- a/drivers/mailbox/mtk-cmdq-mailbox.c +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mtk-cmdq-mailbox.c @@ -363,6 +363,9 @@ static int cmdq_mbox_send_data(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *data) WARN_ON(cmdq->suspended); task = kzalloc(sizeof(*task), GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!task) + return -ENOMEM; + task->cmdq = cmdq; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&task->list_entry); task->pa_base = pkt->pa_base; -- 1.7.9.5