ath5k: check return value of ieee80211_get_tx_rate
authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:27:34 +0000 (15:27 -0400)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:01:14 +0000 (16:01 -0400)
This avoids a NULL pointer dereference as reported here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625889

When the WARN condition is hit in ieee80211_get_tx_rate, it will return
NULL.  So, we need to check the return value and avoid dereferencing it
in that case.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>

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