From 1919b0562bfcd383caf87a13c346d65ce6d519aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:07:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] staging: r8822be: fix null pointer dereference with a null driver_adapter The call to _rtl_dbg_trace via macro HALMAC_RT_TRACE will trigger a null pointer deference on the null driver_adapter. Fix this by assigning driver_adapter earlier to halmac_adapter->driver_adapter before the tracing call so that a non-null driver_adapter is passed instead. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1454613 ("Explicit null dereferenced") Fixes: 938a0447f094 ("staging: r8822be: Add code for halmac sub-driver") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Larry Finger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/rtlwifi/halmac/halmac_88xx/halmac_api_88xx.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/halmac/halmac_88xx/halmac_api_88xx.c b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/halmac/halmac_88xx/halmac_api_88xx.c index f623ae55d1a1..5f84526cb5b5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/halmac/halmac_88xx/halmac_api_88xx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/halmac/halmac_88xx/halmac_api_88xx.c @@ -4447,7 +4447,7 @@ halmac_func_p2pps_88xx(struct halmac_adapter *halmac_adapter, { u8 h2c_buff[HALMAC_H2C_CMD_SIZE_88XX] = {0}; u16 h2c_seq_mum = 0; - void *driver_adapter = NULL; + void *driver_adapter = halmac_adapter->driver_adapter; struct halmac_api *halmac_api; struct halmac_h2c_header_info h2c_header_info; enum halmac_ret_status status = HALMAC_RET_SUCCESS; @@ -4455,7 +4455,6 @@ halmac_func_p2pps_88xx(struct halmac_adapter *halmac_adapter, HALMAC_RT_TRACE(driver_adapter, HALMAC_MSG_H2C, DBG_DMESG, "[TRACE]halmac_p2pps !!\n"); - driver_adapter = halmac_adapter->driver_adapter; halmac_api = (struct halmac_api *)halmac_adapter->halmac_api; P2PPS_SET_OFFLOAD_EN(h2c_buff, p2p_ps->offload_en); -- 2.20.1