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Subject[PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: move null check on dev before dereferecing it
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Currently dev is dereferenced by the call dev_net(dev) before dev is null
checked. Fix this by null checking dev before the potential null
pointer dereference.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1462955 ("Dereference before null check")

Fixes: 23790ef12082 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Allow to configure flags for existing devices")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
index 5f4e447c5dce..b8bbee645f51 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c
@@ -301,10 +301,13 @@ static int rmnet_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
struct rmnet_port *port;
u16 mux_id;

+ if (!dev)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
real_dev = __dev_get_by_index(dev_net(dev),
nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_LINK]));

- if (!real_dev || !dev || !rmnet_is_real_dev_registered(real_dev))
+ if (!real_dev || !rmnet_is_real_dev_registered(real_dev))
return -ENODEV;

port = rmnet_get_port_rtnl(real_dev);
--
2.19.1
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