From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:47:36 +0000 (+0530) Subject: video: fbdev: fix possible null dereference X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d746b40c64619f5064ebbe545938062481ef5183;p=linux-beck.git video: fbdev: fix possible null dereference we were dereferencing edid first and the NULL check was after accessing that. now we are using edid only if we know that it is not NULL. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen --- diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c index 95338593ebf4..868facdec638 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c @@ -624,9 +624,6 @@ static struct fb_videomode *fb_create_modedb(unsigned char *edid, int *dbsize, int num = 0, i, first = 1; int ver, rev; - ver = edid[EDID_STRUCT_VERSION]; - rev = edid[EDID_STRUCT_REVISION]; - mode = kzalloc(50 * sizeof(struct fb_videomode), GFP_KERNEL); if (mode == NULL) return NULL; @@ -637,6 +634,9 @@ static struct fb_videomode *fb_create_modedb(unsigned char *edid, int *dbsize, return NULL; } + ver = edid[EDID_STRUCT_VERSION]; + rev = edid[EDID_STRUCT_REVISION]; + *dbsize = 0; DPRINTK(" Detailed Timings\n");