Re: [PATCH] scsi: lpfc: don't dereference localport before it has been null checked

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To: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: lpfc: don't dereference localport before it has been null checked
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:53:10 -0500
Cc: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20171222002852.10892-1-colin.king@canonical.com> (Colin King's message of "Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:28:52 +0000")
Organization: Oracle Corporation
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Colin,

> localport is being dereferenced to assign lport and then immediately
> afterwards localport is being sanity checked to see if it is null.
> Fix this by only dereferencing localport until after it has been
> null checked.

Applied to 4.16/scsi-queue, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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