From 939205b27312b7d7c4c55624ba785e554b39ecbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:27:23 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] arcfb: Fix dereference before NULL check info->par is dereferenced before info is checked for NULL. Fix. Coverity Bug 833 Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/video/arcfb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/arcfb.c b/drivers/video/arcfb.c index 0cf26da75b6d..466042808daf 100644 --- a/drivers/video/arcfb.c +++ b/drivers/video/arcfb.c @@ -459,11 +459,11 @@ static ssize_t arcfb_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t cou inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode; fbidx = iminor(inode); info = registered_fb[fbidx]; - par = info->par; if (!info || !info->screen_base) return -ENODEV; + par = info->par; xres = info->var.xres; fbmemlength = (xres * info->var.yres)/8; -- 2.20.1