From: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:50:27 +0000

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> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Colin King [mailto:colin.k...@canonical.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:27 AM
>> To: KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
>> <haiya...@microsoft.com>; Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>;
>> de...@linuxdriverproject.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: kernel-janit...@vger.kernel.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: [PATCH] netvsc: fix dereference before null check errors
>> 
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
>> 
>> ndev is being checked to see if it is a null pointer however before
>> the null check ndev is being dereferenced; hence there is a potential
>> null pointer dereference bug that needs fixing. Fix this by only
>> dereferencing ndev after the null check.
>> 
>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1420760, CID#140761 ("Dereference
>> before null check")
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>

Applied.

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