staging: pi433: fix potential null dereference
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>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
index 7864786..d72de21 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
@@ -1245,6 +1245,10 @@ 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);
