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staging: pi433: fix potential null dereference

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Add a test for successful call to cdev_alloc() to avoid
potential null dereference. Issue reported by smatch.

Signed-off-by: Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>
Fixes: 874bcba65f9a ("staging: pi433: New driver")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Michael Straube 2018-11-25 10:22:25 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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commit 4acd5adecf
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drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
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@ -1255,6 +1255,10 @@ static int pi433_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
/* create cdev */
device->cdev = cdev_alloc();
if (!device->cdev) {
dev_dbg(device->dev, "allocation of cdev failed");
goto cdev_failed;
}
device->cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;
cdev_init(device->cdev, &pi433_fops);
retval = cdev_add(device->cdev, device->devt, 1);