we were dereferencing dev to initialize pdata. but just after that we have a BUG_ON(!dev). so we were basically dereferencing the pointer first and then tesing it for NULL. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c index d07bf4c..3393238 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c @@ -1670,12 +1670,13 @@ done: static int smsc95xx_resume(struct usb_interface *intf) { struct usbnet *dev = usb_get_intfdata(intf); - struct smsc95xx_priv *pdata = (struct smsc95xx_priv *)(dev->data[0]); + struct smsc95xx_priv *pdata; u8 suspend_flags = pdata->suspend_flags; int ret; u32 val; BUG_ON(!dev); + pdata = (struct smsc95xx_priv *)(dev->data[0]); netdev_dbg(dev->net, "resume suspend_flags=0x%02x\n", suspend_flags); -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html