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Staging: vt6655-6: potential NULL dereference in hostap_disable_hostapd()

We fixed this to use free_netdev() instead of kfree() but unfortunately
free_netdev() doesn't accept NULL pointers.  Smatch complains about
this, it's not something I discovered through testing.

Fixes: 3030d40b5036 ('staging: vt6655: use free_netdev instead of kfree')
Fixes: 0a438d5b381e ('staging: vt6656: use free_netdev instead of kfree')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Dan Carpenter 11 years ago
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2 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 1
      drivers/staging/vt6655/hostap.c
  2. 2 1
      drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c

+ 2 - 1
drivers/staging/vt6655/hostap.c

@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ static int hostap_disable_hostapd(PSDevice pDevice, int rtnl_locked)
 		DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "%s: Netdevice %s unregistered\n",
 			pDevice->dev->name, pDevice->apdev->name);
 	}
-	free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
+	if (pDevice->apdev)
+		free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
 	pDevice->apdev = NULL;
 	pDevice->bEnable8021x = false;
 	pDevice->bEnableHostWEP = false;

+ 2 - 1
drivers/staging/vt6656/hostap.c

@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ static int hostap_disable_hostapd(struct vnt_private *pDevice, int rtnl_locked)
             DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO "%s: Netdevice %s unregistered\n",
 		       pDevice->dev->name, pDevice->apdev->name);
 	}
-	free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
+	if (pDevice->apdev)
+		free_netdev(pDevice->apdev);
 	pDevice->apdev = NULL;
     pDevice->bEnable8021x = false;
     pDevice->bEnableHostWEP = false;