On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 01:43:17PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The kobj pointer is being null-checked so potentially it could be null,
> however, the ktype declaration before the null check is dereferencing kobj
> hence we have a potential null pointer deference. Fix this by moving the
> assignment of ktype after kobj has been null checked.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
> Fixes: aa30f47cf666 ("kobject: Add support for default attribute groups to kobj_type")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/kobject.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Nice catch, thanks, will go queue this up now.
greg k-h
