Re: [PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: move null check on dev before dereferecing it
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-11-25 01:40:56
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From: Colin King <redacted> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:03:02 +0000
From: Colin Ian King <redacted>
Currently dev is dereferenced by the call dev_net(dev) before dev is null
checked. Fix this by null checking dev before the potential null
pointer dereference.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1462955 ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes: 23790ef12082 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Allow to configure flags for existing devices")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>Applied to net-next.