This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/ctcm: fix variable dereferenced before check to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: s390-ctcm-fix-variable-dereferenced-before-check.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8cfab4cfee39e64d17282ac0cdced96ce934d01b Author: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 10 09:05:06 2022 +0200 s390/ctcm: fix variable dereferenced before check [ Upstream commit 2c50c6867c85afee6f2b3bcbc50fc9d0083d1343 ] Found by cppcheck and smatch. smatch complains about drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c:43 ctcm_buffer_write() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'priv' (see line 42) Fixes: 3c09e2647b5e ("ctcm: rename READ/WRITE defines to avoid redefinitions") Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c index ded1930a00b2..e3813a7aa5e6 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_sysfs.c @@ -39,11 +39,12 @@ static ssize_t ctcm_buffer_write(struct device *dev, struct ctcm_priv *priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev); int rc; - ndev = priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev; - if (!(priv && priv->channel[CTCM_READ] && ndev)) { + if (!(priv && priv->channel[CTCM_READ] && + priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev)) { CTCM_DBF_TEXT(SETUP, CTC_DBF_ERROR, "bfnondev"); return -ENODEV; } + ndev = priv->channel[CTCM_READ]->netdev; rc = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &bs1); if (rc)