Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in free_shared_mem() in drivers/net/s2io.c

This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference
nic before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing
after the null check.

Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber < micah.gruber@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/s2io.c b/drivers/net/s2io.c
index fa29a40..7d54935 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/s2io.c
+++ b/drivers/net/s2io.c
@@ -796,12 +796,14 @@ static void free_shared_mem(struct s2io_nic *nic)
        struct mac_info *mac_control;
        struct config_param *config;
        int lst_size, lst_per_page;
-       struct net_device *dev = nic->dev;
+       struct net_device *dev;
        int page_num = 0;
 
        if (!nic)
                return;
 
+       dev = nic->dev;
+
        mac_control = &nic->mac_control;
        config = &nic->config;