[ Upstream commit 28ac8e03c43dfc6a703aa420d18222540b801120 ] There are calls to idxd_cmd_exec that pass a null status pointer however a recent commit has added an assignment to *status that can end up with a null pointer dereference. The function expects a null status pointer sometimes as there is a later assignment to *status where status is first null checked. Fix the issue by null checking status before making the assignment. Addresses-Coverity: ("Explicit null dereferenced") Fixes: 89e3becd8f82 ("dmaengine: idxd: check device state before issue command") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415110654.1941580-1-colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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