From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The call to find_stateid_by_type is setting the return value in *stid yet the NULL check of the return is checking stid instead of *stid. Fix this by adding in the missing pointer * operator. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 6cdaa72d4dde ("nfsd: find_cpntf_state cleanup") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index f554e3480bb1..423fd6683f3a 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -5824,7 +5824,7 @@ static __be32 find_cpntf_state(struct nfsd_net *nn, stateid_t *st, *stid = find_stateid_by_type(found, &cps->cp_p_stateid, NFS4_DELEG_STID|NFS4_OPEN_STID|NFS4_LOCK_STID); - if (stid) + if (*stid) status = nfs_ok; else status = nfserr_bad_stateid; -- 2.29.2