[PATCH 4/5] net: fsl-mc: NULL check dflt_dpni before dereference

Andrew Goodbody andrew.goodbody at linaro.org
Mon Aug 4 18:56:58 CEST 2025


In dpni_exit there is a NULL check for dflt_dpni after it is
dereferenced a number of times. Instead move the NULL check to early in
the function. Also assign NULL to dflt_dpni after free in both dpni_init
and dpni_exit.

This issue was found by Smatch.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Goodbody <andrew.goodbody at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/fsl-mc/mc.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/fsl-mc/mc.c b/drivers/net/fsl-mc/mc.c
index 8c882c7fcf5..aad852f8151 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fsl-mc/mc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fsl-mc/mc.c
@@ -1539,6 +1539,7 @@ err_get_version:
 		     dflt_dpni->dpni_id);
 err_create:
 	free(dflt_dpni);
+	dflt_dpni = NULL;
 err_calloc:
 	return err;
 }
@@ -1547,6 +1548,9 @@ static int dpni_exit(void)
 {
 	int err;
 
+	if (!dflt_dpni)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	err = dpni_destroy(dflt_mc_io, dflt_dprc_handle, MC_CMD_NO_FLAGS,
 			   dflt_dpni->dpni_id);
 	if (err < 0) {
@@ -1558,8 +1562,8 @@ static int dpni_exit(void)
 	printf("Exit: DPNI.%d\n", dflt_dpni->dpni_id);
 #endif
 
-	if (dflt_dpni)
-		free(dflt_dpni);
+	free(dflt_dpni);
+	dflt_dpni = NULL;
 	return 0;
 
 err:

-- 
2.39.5



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