From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: netvsc: Fix a dereferencing issue Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:10:56 -0700 Message-ID: <1317921056-17141-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Haiyang Zhang List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org net_dev is being de-referenced without proper checking; fix it. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang Reported-by: Dan Carpenter --- drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c b/drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c index ef43f2e..bafccb3 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/rndis_filter.c @@ -368,11 +368,11 @@ int rndis_filter_receive(struct hv_device *dev, struct rndis_message *rndis_hdr; struct net_device *ndev; - ndev = net_dev->ndev; - if (!net_dev) return -EINVAL; + ndev = net_dev->ndev; + /* Make sure the rndis device state is initialized */ if (!net_dev->extension) { netdev_err(ndev, "got rndis message but no rndis device - " -- 1.7.4.1