linux-kernel - [patch] hamradio: avoid null deref v2

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Date:	Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:38:12 +0200
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] hamradio: avoid null deref v2

Bump the stats on the original dev not on the newly assigned NULL version of
dev.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

--- orig/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c	2009-12-22 23:58:56.000000000 +0200
+++ devel/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c	2009-12-25 19:49:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -282,11 +282,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t bpq_xmit(struct sk_bu
 
 	bpq = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-	if ((dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev)) == NULL) {
+	if (!bpq->ethdev) {
 		dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 	}
+	dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev);
 
 	skb->protocol = ax25_type_trans(skb, dev);
 	skb_reset_network_header(skb);
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