netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] usbnet: smsc95xx: dereferencing NULL pointer

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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:25:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com
Cc:	steve.glendinning@...well.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] usbnet: smsc95xx: dereferencing NULL pointer

From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:10:47 +0530

> we were dereferencing dev to initialize pdata. but just after that we
> have a BUG_ON(!dev). so we were basically dereferencing the pointer
> first and then tesing it for NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
> ---
> 
> change in v2: suspend_flags is initialised after pdata is initialised.
> v1 had a very silly but serious mistake of making pdata NULL, and trying
> to dereference it.
> sorry again for that.

This looks better, applied, thanks.
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