netdev - [PATCH net 1/3] s390/ctcm: fix variable dereferenced before check

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Message-Id: <20220510070508.334726-2-wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 May 2022 09:05:06 +0200
From:   Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 1/3] s390/ctcm: fix variable dereferenced before check

Found by cppcheck and smatch.
smatch complains about
drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c:43 ctcm_buffer_write() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'priv' (see line 42)

Fixes: 3c09e2647b5e ("ctcm: rename READ/WRITE defines to avoid redefinitions")
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c
index ded1930a00b2..e3813a7aa5e6 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c
@@ -39,11 +39,12 @@ static ssize_t ctcm_buffer_write(struct device *dev,
 	struct ctcm_priv *priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 	int rc;
 
-	ndev = priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev;
-	if (!(priv && priv->channel[CTCM_READ] && ndev)) {
+	if (!(priv && priv->channel[CTCM_READ] &&
+	      priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev)) {
 		CTCM_DBF_TEXT(SETUP, CTC_DBF_ERROR, "bfnondev");
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
+	ndev = priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev;
 
 	rc = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &bs1);
 	if (rc)
-- 
2.32.0