staging: vboxsf: fix dereference of pointer dentry before it is null checked
authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Tue, 5 Nov 2019 17:51:08 +0000 (17:51 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 7 Nov 2019 15:29:17 +0000 (16:29 +0100)
commit94fed404109d301312bbdf73d7007976ffca3482
tree256850638a0729067d6f2f167322c044545b42d1
parent32e9f6cb07348427abb2806abc67e743a2993b68
staging: vboxsf: fix dereference of pointer dentry before it is null checked

Currently the pointer dentry is being dereferenced before it is
being null checked.  Fix this by only dereferencing dentry once
we know it is not null.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: df4028658f9d ("staging: Add VirtualBox guest shared folder (vboxsf) support")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105175108.79824-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/vboxsf/utils.c