linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: ks7010: avoid dereferencing packet if it is null

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Date:   Wed,  7 Sep 2016 17:23:09 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: ks7010: avoid dereferencing packet if it is null

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Updating tx_bytes from packet->len if packet is null will cause
a null pointer dereference, so only update tx_bytes if it packet
is not null.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
index 1e21eb1..d69b4c9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
@@ -3396,13 +3396,13 @@ void send_packet_complete(void *arg1, void *arg2)
 
 	DPRINTK(3, "\n");
 
-	priv->nstats.tx_bytes += packet->len;
 	priv->nstats.tx_packets++;
 
 	if (netif_queue_stopped(priv->net_dev))
 		netif_wake_queue(priv->net_dev);
 
 	if (packet) {
+		priv->nstats.tx_bytes += packet->len;
 		dev_kfree_skb(packet);
 		packet = NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.9.3