Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2013-03-27
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[PATCH] yam: avoid null pointer dereference error

From: Colin King <hidden>
Date: 2013-03-27 11:19:37
Also in: linux-hams
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

yam_open checks if dev is null, however, before that check it
accesses some of the fields from dev in a proceeding printk which
will cause a null pointer dereference error if dev is nul. Move
the printk to after the null check.

Smatch analysis:

drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c:869 yam_open() warn: variable
  dereferenced before check 'dev' (see line 867)

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
index 4cf8f10..e021e51 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
@@ -864,10 +864,11 @@ static int yam_open(struct net_device *dev)
 	int i;
 	int ret=0;
 
-	printk(KERN_INFO "Trying %s at iobase 0x%lx irq %u\n", dev->name, dev->base_addr, dev->irq);
-
 	if (!dev || !yp->bitrate)
 		return -ENXIO;
+
+	printk(KERN_INFO "Trying %s at iobase 0x%lx irq %u\n", dev->name, dev->base_addr, dev->irq);
+
 	if (!dev->base_addr || dev->base_addr > 0x1000 - YAM_EXTENT ||
 		dev->irq < 2 || dev->irq > 15) {
 		return -ENXIO;
-- 
1.7.9.5
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