From f65d1f082c8fb1bfae3f2cb51ec270da9b6366cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:54:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] hamradio: avoid null deref v3 This should address the problems in version 1 (lazy) and version 2 (ugly). Bump the stats on orig_dev not on the newly assigned NULL dev variable. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c index ae5f11c8fc13..bdadf3e23c94 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c @@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t bpq_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { unsigned char *ptr; struct bpqdev *bpq; + struct net_device *orig_dev; int size; /* @@ -282,8 +283,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t bpq_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) bpq = netdev_priv(dev); + orig_dev = dev; if ((dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev)) == NULL) { - dev->stats.tx_dropped++; + orig_dev->stats.tx_dropped++; kfree_skb(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } -- 2.39.2