From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:21:51 +0000

> platform_get_resource() may fail and return NULL, so we should
> better check it's return value to avoid a NULL pointer dereference
> a bit later in the code.
> 
> This is detected by Coccinelle semantic patch.
> 
> @@
> expression pdev, res, n, t, e, e1, e2;
> @@
> 
> res = platform_get_resource(pdev, t, n);
> + if (!res)
> +   return -EINVAL;
> ... when != res == NULL
> e = devm_ioremap(e1, res->start, e2);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>

Applied, thank you.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c 
> b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
> index 08e0647..8d37066 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c
> @@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ static int unimac_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>               return -ENOMEM;
>  
>       r = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> +     if (!r)
> +             return -EINVAL;
>  
>       /* Just ioremap, as this MDIO block is usually integrated into an
>        * Ethernet MAC controller register range
> 

I have to say, the devm_*() routines may make it easier to write drivers and 
probe
routines, but it makes patches much harder to review.

I couldn't figure out if you were leaking resources here without going into the
source file and looking at all of the relevant context.

Just though I'd make this meta-comment...

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