From: James Smart <jsmart2021@xxxxxxxxx> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> dma_buf->iocbq is being dereferenced immediately before it is being null checked, so we have a potential null pointer dereference bug. Fix this by only dereferencing it only once we have passed a null check on the pointer. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1411652 ("Dereference before null check") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c index c61d8d6..5986c79 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_mem.c @@ -646,7 +646,6 @@ lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc(struct lpfc_hba *phba) } dma_buf->iocbq = lpfc_sli_get_iocbq(phba); - dma_buf->iocbq->iocb_flag = LPFC_IO_NVMET; if (!dma_buf->iocbq) { kfree(dma_buf->context); pci_pool_free(phba->lpfc_drb_pool, dma_buf->dbuf.virt, @@ -658,6 +657,7 @@ lpfc_sli4_nvmet_alloc(struct lpfc_hba *phba) "2621 Ran out of nvmet iocb/WQEs\n"); return NULL; } + dma_buf->iocbq->iocb_flag = LPFC_IO_NVMET; nvmewqe = dma_buf->iocbq; wqe = (union lpfc_wqe128 *)&nvmewqe->wqe; /* Initialize WQE */ -- 2.5.0