From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
The pointer p can be potentially null macro to_software_node can return
null. Add null check on p before dereferencing it to avoid any null
pointer dereferences.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1476039 ("Explicit null dereferenced")
Fixes: 59abd83672f7 ("drivers: base: Introducing software nodes to the firmware
node framework")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
---
drivers/base/swnode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/swnode.c b/drivers/base/swnode.c
index 204aa7d049e0..89ad8dee6ad5 100644
--- a/drivers/base/swnode.c
+++ b/drivers/base/swnode.c
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ software_node_get_next_child(const struct fwnode_handle
*fwnode,
struct software_node *p = to_software_node(fwnode);
struct software_node *c = to_software_node(child);
- if (list_empty(&p->children) ||
+ if (!p || list_empty(&p->children) ||
(c && list_is_last(&c->entry, &p->children)))
return NULL;
--
2.19.1
