From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:40:47 +0000 (+0530) Subject: usbnet: smsc95xx: dereferencing NULL pointer X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8bca81d9875c7768c40a19fb439eebaf6cec898d;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git usbnet: smsc95xx: dereferencing NULL pointer we were dereferencing dev to initialize pdata. but just after that we have a BUG_ON(!dev). so we were basically dereferencing the pointer first and then tesing it for NULL. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c index d07bf4cb893f..26423adc35ee 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c @@ -1670,12 +1670,14 @@ done: static int smsc95xx_resume(struct usb_interface *intf) { struct usbnet *dev = usb_get_intfdata(intf); - struct smsc95xx_priv *pdata = (struct smsc95xx_priv *)(dev->data[0]); - u8 suspend_flags = pdata->suspend_flags; + struct smsc95xx_priv *pdata; + u8 suspend_flags; int ret; u32 val; BUG_ON(!dev); + pdata = (struct smsc95xx_priv *)(dev->data[0]); + suspend_flags = pdata->suspend_flags; netdev_dbg(dev->net, "resume suspend_flags=0x%02x\n", suspend_flags);