Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: r8188eu: fix null check in _rtw_enqueue_recvframe

[Pavel Skripkin]

Hi Vihas,

On 4/24/22 19:31, Vihas Makwana wrote:
> There's a NULL check on padapter in rtw_recv.c:189 which makes no sense as
> rtw_recv.c:184 dereferences it unconditionally and it would have already
> crashed at this point.
> Fix this by moving the dereference line inside the check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vihas Makwana <makvihas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
> index 4cf9b4b8f..7d306a3c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
> @@ -181,12 +181,13 @@ int rtw_free_recvframe(struct recv_frame *precvframe, struct __queue *pfree_recv
>   int _rtw_enqueue_recvframe(struct recv_frame *precvframe, struct __queue *queue)
>   {
>   	struct adapter *padapter = precvframe->adapter;
> -	struct recv_priv *precvpriv = &padapter->recvpriv;
> +	struct recv_priv *precvpriv;

Actually, `&padapter->recvpriv` is not a de-reference, it's just address 
calculation, so in case of padapder being NULL precvpriv will contain 
offsetof(struct adapter, recvpriv).

>   
>   	list_del_init(&precvframe->list);
>   	list_add_tail(&precvframe->list, get_list_head(queue));
>   
>   	if (padapter) {
> +		precvpriv = &padapter->recvpriv;
>   		if (queue == &precvpriv->free_recv_queue)
>   			precvpriv->free_recvframe_cnt++;
>   	}




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin