From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753040AbZLZMiy (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:38:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751987AbZLZMix (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:38:53 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com ([209.85.220.225]:62952 "EHLO mail-fx0-f225.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751769AbZLZMiw (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:38:52 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=OQCBGte7v3JSuFPPrbRBIinwfzExrUD7AgrIul+2p/BpmDaiRzRd7qfSqF9yKoPriB rU5eOH1h8jwh4EJRsv0YNNMMZkIMeF+lu/VrM3NBw2WVV38Ab5P7UPRGYPShdCsDSHOa hUDuFVVJUeLjLHPYdyJLBZvdEth0QGLamFD8M= Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:38:12 +0200 From: Dan Carpenter To: Jarek Poplawski Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch] hamradio: avoid null deref v2 Message-ID: <20091226123812.GB6075@bicker> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Carpenter , Jarek Poplawski , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20091223132550.GD17923@bicker> <4B3257C2.2050500@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B3257C2.2050500@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bump the stats on the original dev not on the newly assigned NULL version of dev. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- orig/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c 2009-12-22 23:58:56.000000000 +0200 +++ devel/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c 2009-12-25 19:49:05.000000000 +0200 @@ -282,11 +282,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t bpq_xmit(struct sk_bu bpq = netdev_priv(dev); - if ((dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev)) == NULL) { + if (!bpq->ethdev) { dev->stats.tx_dropped++; kfree_skb(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } + dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev); skb->protocol = ax25_type_trans(skb, dev); skb_reset_network_header(skb);