linux-kernel - [patch] applicom: dereferencing NULL on error path

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Date:	Fri, 9 May 2014 14:59:16 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Christophe Lucas <clucas@...omalug.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] applicom: dereferencing NULL on error path

This is a static checker fix.  The "dev" variable is always NULL after
the while statement so we would be dereferencing a NULL pointer here.

Fixes: 819a3eba4233 ('[PATCH] applicom: fix error handling')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/char/applicom.c b/drivers/char/applicom.c
index 974321a..1479030 100644
--- a/drivers/char/applicom.c
+++ b/drivers/char/applicom.c
@@ -345,7 +345,6 @@ out:
 			free_irq(apbs[i].irq, &dummy);
 		iounmap(apbs[i].RamIO);
 	}
-	pci_disable_device(dev);
 	return ret;
 }
 
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