Re: smatch stuff: serial: ifx6x60: oops on load

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:15:55 +0300
Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Smatch complains that the ifx6x60 driver in linux-next has a NULL
> dereference.
> 
> drivers/serial/ifx6x60.c +986 ifx_spi_spi_probe(27)
> 	error: potential null derefence 'pl_data'.
> 
>    984          ifx_dev->spi_timer.function = ifx_spi_timeout;
>    985          ifx_dev->spi_timer.data = (unsigned long)ifx_dev;
>    986          ifx_dev->is_6160 = pl_data->is_6160;
>                                    ^^^^^^^
> "pl_data" is always NULL at this point.  Presumably this crashes on load
> every time.

Getting the platform enabling patch in is on the todo list but it depends
on some other bits which are also not yet in the tree.

is_6160 needs to go anyway as it's not what the platform data really
indicates.

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