Re: [PATCH] net: qualcomm: rmnet: check for null ep to avoid null pointer dereference

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Mar 26 2018 - 12:11:53 EST


From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:51:57 +0000

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The call to rmnet_get_endpoint can potentially return NULL so check
> for this to avoid any subsequent null pointer dereferences on a NULL
> ep.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1465385 ("Dereference null return value")
>
> Fixes: 23790ef12082 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Allow to configure flags for existing devices")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next, thanks.