we are dereferencing the pshmem , and the pci_alloc_consistent can fail returning null, do a memcpy if we have a valid pshmem Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c index 10dcd33..5adc898 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c @@ -3712,9 +3712,8 @@ static void slic_init_adapter(struct net_device *netdev, phys_shmem); ASSERT(adapter->pshmem); - memset(adapter->pshmem, 0, sizeof(struct slic_shmem)); - - return; + if (adapter->pshmem) + memset(adapter->pshmem, 0, sizeof(struct slic_shmem)); } static const struct net_device_ops slic_netdev_ops = { -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel