[PATCH] iio: hmc: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Kangjie Lu
Date: Sat Mar 09 2019 - 00:16:11 EST


devm_regmap_init_i2c may fail and return NULL. The fix returns
the error when it fails.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c
index 3de7f4426ac4..c0cd0823f8d5 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c
@@ -58,8 +58,13 @@ static const struct regmap_config hmc5843_i2c_regmap_config = {
static int hmc5843_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *cli,
const struct i2c_device_id *id)
{
+ struct regmap *devm_regmap = devm_regmap_init_i2c(cli,
+ &hmc5843_i2c_regmap_config);
+ if (IS_ERR(devm_regmap))
+ return PTR_ERR(devm_regmap);
+
return hmc5843_common_probe(&cli->dev,
- devm_regmap_init_i2c(cli, &hmc5843_i2c_regmap_config),
+ devm_regmap,
id->driver_data, id->name);
}

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2.17.1