netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: check for null ep to avoid null pointer dereference

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Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:11:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     subashab@...eaurora.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: check for null ep to avoid null
 pointer dereference

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:51:57 +0000

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The call to rmnet_get_endpoint can potentially return NULL so check
> for this to avoid any subsequent null pointer dereferences on a NULL
> ep.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1465385 ("Dereference null return value")
> 
> Fixes: 23790ef12082 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Allow to configure flags for existing devices")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.