From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:05:01 +0000 > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Pointer hwdev is being dereferenced when declaring hwif , however, later > on hwdev is being null checked, hence we have dereference before null > check error. Fix this by assigning hwif and pdef only once hwdev has > been null checked. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1485581 ("Dereference before null check") > > Fixes: 4a61abb100c8 ("net-next/hinic:add rx checksum offload for HiNIC") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied to net-next.