From ec14121931a24f8d3678b8a9c408adee3b21d465 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:34:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: avoid null pointer dereference on pmlmepriv Git-commit: ec14121931a24f8d3678b8a9c408adee3b21d465 Patch-mainline: v4.14-rc4 References: bsc#1051510 There is a check to see if pmlmepriv is null before vfree'ing pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf hence implying pmlmepriv could potenially be null. However, a previous call to rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data can also dereference pmlmepriv, so move this call so that it is only called if pmlmepriv non-null. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1077739 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: 554c0a3abf21 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Takashi Iwai --- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c @@ -119,9 +119,8 @@ void rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(struct m void _rtw_free_mlme_priv(struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv) { - rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); - if (pmlmepriv) { + rtw_free_mlme_priv_ie_data(pmlmepriv); if (pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf) { vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf); }