Re: [PATCH][next] media: ispstat: don't dereference user_cfg before a null check

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:06:18PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The pointer user_cfg (a copy of new_conf) is dereference before
> new_conf is null checked, hence we may have a null pointer dereference
> on user_cfg when assigning buf_size from user_cfg->buf_size. Ensure
> this does not occur by moving the assignment of buf_size after the
> null check.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1468386 ("Dereference before null check")
> 
> Fixes: 68e342b3068c ("[media] omap3isp: Statistics")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the patch.

Gustavo sent effectively the same patch a moment earlier, and that patch
got applied instead.

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Sakari Ailus
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