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authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2009-12-28 06:54:55 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-01-03 21:42:50 -0800
commitf65d1f082c8fb1bfae3f2cb51ec270da9b6366cf (patch)
tree724e6ecc523064138a3e8037b826852a848ca528
parentc064efca9211d12bb9e6de8718fc39884eb883f2 (diff)
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 <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c
index ae5f11c8fc1..bdadf3e23c9 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;
}