[PATCH 2/3] net: fm: NULL check dev before dereference

Andrew Goodbody andrew.goodbody at linaro.org
Mon Aug 4 18:03:58 CEST 2025


In fm_eth_bind there is a dereference of dev before it is NULL checked.
Add a NULL check before the first dereference and remove a later NULL
check that is now redundant.

This issue was found by Smatch.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Goodbody <andrew.goodbody at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/fm/eth.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/fm/eth.c b/drivers/net/fm/eth.c
index c83b789693a..f0e7c0eca42 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fm/eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fm/eth.c
@@ -727,12 +727,15 @@ static int fm_eth_bind(struct udevice *dev)
 	char mac_name[11];
 	u32 fm, num;
 
+	if (!dev)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (ofnode_read_u32(ofnode_get_parent(dev_ofnode(dev)), "cell-index", &fm)) {
 		printf("FMan node property cell-index missing\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (dev && dev_read_u32(dev, "cell-index", &num)) {
+	if (dev_read_u32(dev, "cell-index", &num)) {
 		printf("FMan MAC node property cell-index missing\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}

-- 
2.39.5



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