On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 02:52:17PM +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Currently pointer tdata is being dereferenced on the initialization of > pointer skb before tdata is null checked. This could lead to a potential > null pointer dereference. Fix this by dereferencing tdata after tdata > has been null pointer sanity checked. > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check") > Fixes: e33c2482289b ("scsi: cxgb4i: Add support for iSCSI segmentation offload") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c > index 1fb101c616b7..a6119d9daedf 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c > @@ -2147,7 +2147,7 @@ int cxgbi_conn_init_pdu(struct iscsi_task *task, unsigned int offset, > struct iscsi_conn *conn = task->conn; > struct iscsi_tcp_task *tcp_task = task->dd_data; > struct cxgbi_task_data *tdata = iscsi_task_cxgbi_data(task); > - struct sk_buff *skb = tdata->skb; > + struct sk_buff *skb; > struct scsi_cmnd *sc = task->sc; > u32 expected_count, expected_offset; > u32 datalen = count, dlimit = 0; > @@ -2161,6 +2161,7 @@ int cxgbi_conn_init_pdu(struct iscsi_task *task, unsigned int offset, > tcp_task ? tcp_task->dd_data : NULL, tdata); > return -EINVAL; > } > + skb = tdata->skb; > > log_debug(1 << CXGBI_DBG_ISCSI | 1 << CXGBI_DBG_PDU_TX, > "task 0x%p,0x%p, skb 0x%p, 0x%x,0x%x,0x%x, %u+%u.\n", > @@ -2365,7 +2366,7 @@ int cxgbi_conn_xmit_pdu(struct iscsi_task *task) > struct iscsi_tcp_task *tcp_task = task->dd_data; > struct cxgbi_task_data *tdata = iscsi_task_cxgbi_data(task); > struct cxgbi_task_tag_info *ttinfo = &tdata->ttinfo; > - struct sk_buff *skb = tdata->skb; > + struct sk_buff *skb; > struct cxgbi_sock *csk = NULL; > u32 pdulen = 0; > u32 datalen; > @@ -2378,6 +2379,7 @@ int cxgbi_conn_xmit_pdu(struct iscsi_task *task) > return -EINVAL; > } > > + skb = tdata->skb; > if (!skb) { > log_debug(1 << CXGBI_DBG_ISCSI | 1 << CXGBI_DBG_PDU_TX, > "task 0x%p, skb NULL.\n", task); Acked-by: Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx>