commit 703ba88548082f91970ee91c9fb64ab582e391cd
author Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Mon Mar 20 12:03:03 2017 +0000
committer Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mon Mar 27 16:47:44 2017 -0700
tree a8a88790e807c4b7a58e3d7d9c8e4ff22238f936
parent c76cb6ed5431756071cc13635db70234597b9cf7

i40evf: dereference VSI after VSI has been null checked

VSI is being dereferenced before the VSI null check; if VSI is
null we end up with a null pointer dereference.  Fix this by
performing VSI deference after the VSI null check.  Also remove
the need for using adapter by using vsi->back->cinst.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1419696, CID#1419697
("Dereference before null check")

Fixes: ed0e894de7c133 ("i40evf: add client interface")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_client.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_client.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_client.c
index 5b43e5b..ee73768 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_client.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_client.c
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@
  **/
 void i40evf_notify_client_message(struct i40e_vsi *vsi, u8 *msg, u16 len)
 {
-	struct i40evf_adapter *adapter = vsi->back;
-	struct i40e_client_instance *cinst = adapter->cinst;
+	struct i40e_client_instance *cinst;
 
 	if (!vsi)
 		return;
 
+	cinst = vsi->back->cinst;
 	if (!cinst || !cinst->client || !cinst->client->ops ||
 	    !cinst->client->ops->virtchnl_receive) {
 		dev_dbg(&vsi->back->pdev->dev,
@@ -58,12 +58,13 @@
  **/
 void i40evf_notify_client_l2_params(struct i40e_vsi *vsi)
 {
-	struct i40evf_adapter *adapter = vsi->back;
-	struct i40e_client_instance *cinst = adapter->cinst;
+	struct i40e_client_instance *cinst;
 	struct i40e_params params;
 
 	if (!vsi)
 		return;
+
+	cinst = vsi->back->cinst;
 	memset(&params, 0, sizeof(params));
 	params.mtu = vsi->netdev->mtu;
 	params.link_up = vsi->back->link_up;