Re: [PATCH v2] usbnet: smsc95xx: dereferencing NULL pointer

[David Miller]

From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:10:47 +0530

> we were dereferencing dev to initialize pdata. but just after that we
> have a BUG_ON(!dev). so we were basically dereferencing the pointer
> first and then tesing it for NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> change in v2: suspend_flags is initialised after pdata is initialised.
> v1 had a very silly but serious mistake of making pdata NULL, and trying
> to dereference it.
> sorry again for that.

This looks better, applied, thanks.
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