From 94cdc5608b5561aeda80edda9c9223608a1da6fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:24:52 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] hwmon: (max31790) potential ERR_PTR dereference We should only dereference "data" after we check if it is an error pointer. Fixes: 54187ff9d766 ('hwmon: (max31790) Convert to use new hwmon registration API') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck --- drivers/hwmon/max31790.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/max31790.c b/drivers/hwmon/max31790.c index bef84e0..c1b9275 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/max31790.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/max31790.c @@ -268,11 +268,13 @@ static int max31790_read_pwm(struct device *dev, u32 attr, int channel, long *val) { struct max31790_data *data = max31790_update_device(dev); - u8 fan_config = data->fan_config[channel]; + u8 fan_config; if (IS_ERR(data)) return PTR_ERR(data); + fan_config = data->fan_config[channel]; + switch (attr) { case hwmon_pwm_input: *val = data->pwm[channel] >> 8; -- 2.7.4