Re: [PATCH][net-next] hinic: fix dereference of pointer hwdev before it is null checked

[David Miller]

From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:27:51 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently pointer hwdev is dereferenced when assigning hwif before
> hwdev is null checked.  Fix this by only derefencing hwdev after the
> null check.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
> Fixes: 4fdc51bb4e92 ("hinic: add support for rss parameters with ethtool")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.