From: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
To: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:26:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C76CD6.1090902@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355246740-12539-1-git-send-email-juhosg@openwrt.org>
2012.12.11. 18:25 keltezéssel, Gabor Juhos írta:
> Due to my recent commit (ath9k: allow to load EEPROM
> content via firmware API) smatch complains about that
> the 'pdata' variable in 'ath9k_hw_init' can be NULL
> and it is dereferenced before checking that. That is
> absolutely correct.
>
> Check the 'pdata' variable before using it to avoid
> a NULL pointer dereference.
Oops, sent an old patch again instead of the rt2x00 one. Sorry.
-Gabor
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2012-12-11 17:25 [PATCH] ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it Gabor Juhos
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