From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [patch] hamradio: avoid null deref v2 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:38:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20091226123812.GB6075@bicker> References: <20091223132550.GD17923@bicker> <4B3257C2.2050500@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Jarek Poplawski Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B3257C2.2050500@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Bump the stats on the original dev not on the newly assigned NULL version of dev. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- orig/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c 2009-12-22 23:58:56.000000000 +0200 +++ devel/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c 2009-12-25 19:49:05.000000000 +0200 @@ -282,11 +282,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t bpq_xmit(struct sk_bu bpq = netdev_priv(dev); - if ((dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev)) == NULL) { + if (!bpq->ethdev) { dev->stats.tx_dropped++; kfree_skb(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } + dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev); skb->protocol = ax25_type_trans(skb, dev); skb_reset_network_header(skb);