netdev - re: mac80211: avoid allocating TXQs that won't be used

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Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:08:03 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: re: mac80211: avoid allocating TXQs that won't be used

Johannes,

Static analysis with CoverityScan on linux-next today detected a null
pointer dereference issue on commit:

>From 0fc4b3403d215ecd3c05505ec1f0028a227ed319 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:20:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: avoid allocating TXQs that won't be used

Issue: sdata is null when the sdata is dereferenced by:

                   sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN &&
                   sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)

note that sdata is assigned a non-null much later with the statement
sdata = netdev_priv(ndev).

Detected by CoverityScan CID#1456974 ("Explicit null dereferenced")

Colin