[patch] ipv6: move dereference after check in fl_free()
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From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-16 13:15:56
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kernel-janitors
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
There is a dereference before checking for NULL bug here. Generally free() functions should accept NULL pointers. For example, fl_create() can pass a NULL pointer to fl_free() on the error path. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted> --- Only needed on linux-next.
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
index c836a6a..90bbefb 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c@@ -91,12 +91,9 @@ static struct ip6_flowlabel *fl_lookup(struct net *net, __be32 label) static void fl_free(struct ip6_flowlabel *fl) { - switch (fl->share) { - case IPV6_FL_S_PROCESS: - put_pid(fl->owner.pid); - break; - } if (fl) { + if (fl->share == IPV6_FL_S_PROCESS) + put_pid(fl->owner.pid); release_net(fl->fl_net); kfree(fl->opt); }