Though it's unlikely, di may be null, so we can't dereference di->dma.dmactrlflags until we've checked it. Move this de-reference after the check, and adjust the error message to not require de-referencing di. This is based upon Julia's original patch: <1319846297-2985-2-git-send-email-julia@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/dma.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/dma.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/dma.c index ae541fb..e286fb4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/dma.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/dma.c @@ -358,13 +358,14 @@ static uint nrxdactive(struct dma_info *di, uint h, uint t) static uint _dma_ctrlflags(struct dma_info *di, uint mask, uint flags) { - uint dmactrlflags = di->dma.dmactrlflags; + uint dmactrlflags; if (di == NULL) { - DMA_ERROR(("%s: _dma_ctrlflags: NULL dma handle\n", di->name)); + DMA_ERROR(("_dma_ctrlflags: NULL dma handle\n")); return 0; } + dmactrlflags = di->dma.dmactrlflags; dmactrlflags &= ~mask; dmactrlflags |= flags; -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html