soc: ti: knav: Add a NULL pointer check for kdev in knav_pool_create

knav_pool_create is an exported function. In the event of a call
before knav_queue_probe, we encounter a NULL pointer dereference
in the following line. Hence return -EPROBE_DEFER to the caller till
the kdev pointer is non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c b/drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c
index 279e7c5551dd..39225de9d7f1 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c
@@ -745,6 +745,9 @@ void *knav_pool_create(const char *name,
         bool slot_found;
         int ret;
 
+        if (!kdev)
+                return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
+
         if (!kdev->dev)
                 return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);