The cifs_sb_tlink() function can return error pointers, but this code dereferences it before checking for error pointers. Re-order the code to fix that. Fixes: 0f9b6b045bb2 ("fs/smb/client: implement chmod() for SMB3 POSIX Extensions") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c b/fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c index c68ad526a4de..ba79aa2107cc 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c @@ -1592,14 +1592,16 @@ id_mode_to_cifs_acl(struct inode *inode, const char *path, __u64 *pnmode, struct smb_ntsd *pntsd = NULL; /* acl obtained from server */ struct smb_ntsd *pnntsd = NULL; /* modified acl to be sent to server */ struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb); - struct tcon_link *tlink = cifs_sb_tlink(cifs_sb); + struct tcon_link *tlink; struct smb_version_operations *ops; bool mode_from_sid, id_from_sid; - bool posix = tlink_tcon(tlink)->posix_extensions; const u32 info = 0; + bool posix; + tlink = cifs_sb_tlink(cifs_sb); if (IS_ERR(tlink)) return PTR_ERR(tlink); + posix = tlink_tcon(tlink)->posix_extensions; ops = tlink_tcon(tlink)->ses->server->ops; -- 2.45.2