netdev - [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 1/7] ehea: Fixed wrong dereferencation

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Message-Id: <200701221252.20814.osstklei@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:52:20 +0100
From:	Thomas Klein <osstklei@...ibm.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	"Jan-Bernd Themann" <ossthema@...ibm.com>,
	"Jan-Bernd Themann" <themann@...ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ppc" <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Marcus Eder <meder@...ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Klein <tklein@...ibm.com>,
	Stefan Roscher <roscher@...ibm.com>,
	Stefan Roscher <ossrosch@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 1/7] ehea: Fixed wrong dereferencation

Not only check the pointer against 0 but also the dereferenced value

Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@...ibm.com>
---


 drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h      |    2 +-
 drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |    6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h
--- linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h	2007-01-12 19:54:26.000000000 +0100
+++ patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h	2007-01-19 13:56:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
 #define DRV_NAME	"ehea"
-#define DRV_VERSION	"EHEA_0043"
+#define DRV_VERSION	"EHEA_0044"
 
 #define EHEA_MSG_DEFAULT (NETIF_MSG_LINK | NETIF_MSG_TIMER \
 	| NETIF_MSG_RX_ERR | NETIF_MSG_TX_ERR)
diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
--- linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c	2007-01-12 19:54:26.000000000 +0100
+++ patched_kernel/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c	2007-01-19 13:58:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -2471,14 +2471,16 @@ static int __devinit ehea_probe(struct i
 
 	adapter_handle = (u64*)get_property(dev->ofdev.node, "ibm,hea-handle",
 					    NULL);
-	if (!adapter_handle) {
+	if (adapter_handle)
+		adapter->handle = *adapter_handle;
+
+	if (!adapter->handle) {
 		dev_err(&dev->ofdev.dev, "failed getting handle for adapter"
 			" '%s'\n", dev->ofdev.node->full_name);
 		ret = -ENODEV;
 		goto out_free_ad;
 	}
 
-	adapter->handle = *adapter_handle;
 	adapter->pd = EHEA_PD_ID;
 
 	dev->ofdev.dev.driver_data = adapter;

-
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