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Re: [PATCH] libertas: fix possible NULL dereference

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We were dereferencing cmd first and checking for NULL later. Lets first
> check for NULL.

However the patch is valid due to reducing error prone part, the
commit message seems wrong.
There is no dereferencing, it is a simple pointer arithmetic.

>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c
> index 8317afd..e38ad1d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c
> @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ static int lbs_associate(struct lbs_private *priv,
>         size_t len, resp_ie_len;
>         int status;
>         int ret;
> -       u8 *pos = &(cmd->iebuf[0]);
> +       u8 *pos;
>         u8 *tmp;
>
>         lbs_deb_enter(LBS_DEB_CFG80211);
> @@ -1117,6 +1117,7 @@ static int lbs_associate(struct lbs_private *priv,
>                 ret = -ENOMEM;
>                 goto done;
>         }
> +       pos = &cmd->iebuf[0];
>
>         /*
>          * cmd              50 00
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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