On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:42:12AM +0100, LABBE Corentin wrote: > of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer > dereference later. > > Reported-by: coverity (CID 1324139) > Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin > --- > drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c > index cd9dde5..3011fcc 100644 > --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c > +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c > @@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ static int sun4i_pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > const struct of_device_id *match; > > match = of_match_device(sun4i_pwm_dt_ids, &pdev->dev); > + if (!match) > + return -ENODEV; I explained this in a reply to another similar patch, but that was a different audience, so here goes again: the driver core will use the same device ID table to match on the driver, so the case where NULL would be returned is the same case in which sun4i_pwm_probe() would never have been called in the first place. Thierry