From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The return from ieee80211_get_sband can potentially be a null pointer, so it seems prudent to add a null check to avoid a null pointer dereference on sband. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference null return") Fixes: 2ab45876756f ("mac80211: add support for the ADDBA extension element") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/agg-rx.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c index 0e1bb43973b8..4d1c335e06e5 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/agg-rx.c @@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ static void ieee80211_add_addbaext(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *pos; sband = ieee80211_get_sband(sdata); + if (!sband) + return; he_cap = ieee80211_get_he_iftype_cap(sband, sdata->vif.type); if (!he_cap) return; -- 2.20.1