Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8192e: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:25:51AM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> We need to make sure the struct rtllib_device pointer ieee is not NULL
> after the goto rx_dropped label since it is dereferenced there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c
> index 60de54c..7db3e74 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_rx.c
> @@ -1496,7 +1496,8 @@ int rtllib_rx(struct rtllib_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	return ret;
>  
>   rx_dropped:
> -	ieee->stats.rx_dropped++;
> +	if (ieee)
> +		ieee->stats.rx_dropped++;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtllib_rx);

Is this something that is hitting users today in the tree, or is this
just a bug you found looking at the code?

thanks,

greg k-h
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