The "fixed_link" is only allocated sometimes but it's freed unconditionally in the error handling. Set it to NULL so we don't free uninitialized data. Fixes: 9ea4742a55ca ("net: fman: Configure fixed link in memac_initialization") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c index c376b9bf657d..f9a3f85760fb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static int memac_initialization(struct mac_device *mac_dev, { int err; struct fman_mac_params params; - struct fixed_phy_status *fixed_link; + struct fixed_phy_status *fixed_link = NULL; mac_dev->set_promisc = memac_set_promiscuous; mac_dev->change_addr = memac_modify_mac_address; -- 2.35.1