From 9abebb8a10ce93db45327bd3a4d06801e6db92f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:32:19 +0200
Subject: NFC: delete null dereference
The exit label performs device_unlock(&dev->dev);, which will fail when dev
is NULL, and nfc_put_device(dev);, which is not useful when dev is NULL, so
just exit the function immediately.
Problem found using scripts/coccinelle/null/deref_null.cocci
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
---
net/nfc/netlink.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/nfc/netlink.c b/net/nfc/netlink.c
index 853172c..f040532 100644
--- a/net/nfc/netlink.c
+++ b/net/nfc/netlink.c
@@ -1109,10 +1109,8 @@ static int nfc_genl_llc_sdreq(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
idx = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NFC_ATTR_DEVICE_INDEX]);
dev = nfc_get_device(idx);
- if (!dev) {
- rc = -ENODEV;
- goto exit;
- }
+ if (!dev)
+ return -ENODEV;
device_lock(&dev->dev);
--
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