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Message-ID: <aaab98560707082029u52ffce5eia32cfb57a29db78f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:29:04 +0800
From: "Micah Gruber" <micah.gruber@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: [PATCH] [2.6.22] Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in free_shared_mem() in drivers/net/s2io.c
This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference
nic before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing
after the null check.
Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber < micah.gruber@...il.com>
--- a/drivers/net/s2io.c
+++ b/drivers/net/s2io.c
@@ -789,12 +789,14 @@
struct mac_info *mac_control;
struct config_param *config;
int lst_size, lst_per_page;
- struct net_device *dev = nic->dev;
+ struct net_device *dev;
int page_num = 0;
if (!nic)
return;
+ dev = nic->dev;
+
mac_control = &nic->mac_control;
config = &nic->config;
-
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