From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The sanity check for hrq should be moved to before the deference of hrq to ensure we don't perform a null pointer deference. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1411650 ("Dereference before null check") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c index e43e5e2..1fba5dc 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c @@ -15185,17 +15185,17 @@ lpfc_mrq_create(struct lpfc_hba *phba, struct lpfc_queue **hrqp, drq = drqp[idx]; cq = cqp[idx]; - if (hrq->entry_count != drq->entry_count) { - status = -EINVAL; - goto out; - } - /* sanity check on queue memory */ if (!hrq || !drq || !cq) { status = -ENODEV; goto out; } + if (hrq->entry_count != drq->entry_count) { + status = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + if (idx == 0) { bf_set(lpfc_mbx_rq_create_num_pages, &rq_create->u.request, -- 2.10.2