From d41de3c10047d5f0b661593a8f4610a19f87621f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Slaby Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:41:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ISDN: hysdn, fix potential NULL dereference Stanse found that lp is dereferenced earlier than checked for being NULL in hysdn_rx_netpkt. Move the initialization below the test. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Karsten Keil Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Patrick McHardy Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c b/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c index 72eb926..feec8d8 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c @@ -187,12 +187,13 @@ void hysdn_rx_netpkt(hysdn_card * card, unsigned char *buf, unsigned short len) { struct net_local *lp = card->netif; - struct net_device *dev = lp->dev; + struct net_device *dev; struct sk_buff *skb; if (!lp) return; /* non existing device */ + dev = lp->dev; dev->stats.rx_bytes += len; skb = dev_alloc_skb(len); -- 2.7.4