On 14/06/2021 12:28, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 03:44:07PM +0100, Colin King wrote: >> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Currently pointer priv is dereferencing dev before dev is being null >> checked so a potential null pointer dereference can occur. Fix this >> by only assigning and using priv if dev is not-null. >> >> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check") >> Fixes: 16994374a6fc ("net: dsa: b53: Make SRAB driver manage port interrupts") >> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_srab.c | 8 +++++--- >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_srab.c b/drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_srab.c >> index aaa12d73784e..e77ac598f859 100644 >> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_srab.c >> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_srab.c >> @@ -629,11 +629,13 @@ static int b53_srab_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) >> static int b53_srab_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) >> { >> struct b53_device *dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); >> - struct b53_srab_priv *priv = dev->priv; >> >> - b53_srab_intr_set(priv, false); >> - if (dev) >> + if (dev) { > > This is the remove function and "dev" can't be NULL at this point. > Better to just remove the NULL check. Will do. > > regards, > dan carpenter >