On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:14:52PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> Here, If ioremap_nocache will fail. It will return NULL.
> Kernel can run into a NULL-pointer dereference.
> This error check will avoid NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/i82975x_edac.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/i82975x_edac.c b/drivers/edac/i82975x_edac.c
> index 7baa8ac..e747d82 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/i82975x_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/i82975x_edac.c
> @@ -494,6 +494,10 @@ static int i82975x_probe1(struct pci_dev *pdev, int 
> dev_idx)
>       }
>       mchbar &= 0xffffc000;   /* bits 31:14 used for 16K window */
>       mch_window = ioremap_nocache(mchbar, 0x1000);
> +     if (!mch_window) {
> +             edac_dbg(3, "failed to memory map!\n");
> +             goto fail0;
> +     }
>  
>  #ifdef i82975x_DEBUG_IOMEM
>       i82975x_printk(KERN_INFO, "MCHBAR real = %0x, remapped = %p\n",
> -- 

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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