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Currently dev is dereferenced by the call dev_net(dev) before dev is null
checked. Fix this by null checking dev before the potential null
pointer dereference.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#
1462955 ("Dereference before null check")
Fixes:
23790ef12082 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Allow to configure flags for existing devices")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
struct rmnet_port *port;
u16 mux_id;
+ if (!dev)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
real_dev = __dev_get_by_index(dev_net(dev),
nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_LINK]));
- if (!real_dev || !dev || !rmnet_is_real_dev_registered(real_dev))
+ if (!real_dev || !rmnet_is_real_dev_registered(real_dev))
return -ENODEV;
port = rmnet_get_port_rtnl(real_dev);