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