From: Colin Ian King Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:34:18 +0000 (+0100) Subject: staging: rtl8723bs: avoid null pointer dereference on pmlmepriv X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec14121931a24f8d3678b8a9c408adee3b21d465;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git staging: rtl8723bs: avoid null pointer dereference on pmlmepriv There is a check to see if pmlmepriv is null before vfree'ing pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf hence implying pmlmepriv could potenially be null. However, a previous call to rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data can also dereference pmlmepriv, so move this call so that it is only called if pmlmepriv non-null. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1077739 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 554c0a3abf21 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c index 6b778206a1a3..cb8a95aabd6c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c @@ -119,9 +119,8 @@ void rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) void _rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) { - rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); - if (pmlmepriv) { + rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); if (pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf) { vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf); }