netdev - Re: [PATCH][next] wil6210: fix potential null dereference of ndev before null check

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Message-ID: <87bmf7mqii.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:53:25 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     merez@...eaurora.org
Cc:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, wil6210@....qualcomm.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] wil6210: fix potential null dereference of ndev before null check

merez@...eaurora.org writes:

> On 2018-03-28 20:40, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> The pointer ndev is being dereferenced before it is being null checked,
>> hence there is a potential null pointer deference. Fix this by only
>> dereferencing ndev after it has been null checked
>>
>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1467010 ("Dereference before null check")
>>
>> Fixes: e00243fab84b ("wil6210: infrastructure for multiple virtual
>> interfaces")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

[...]

> Reviewed-by: Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>

Maya, as you are the wil6210 maintainer you can actually use Acked-by
instead of Reviewed-by. Not that it really matters which one you use,
both of them indicate me that you have checked and agree the patch, but
wanted to point out this anyway :)

-- 
Kalle Valo