[patch] hamradio: avoid null deref v2

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Sat Dec 26 2009 - 07:38:57 EST


Bump the stats on the original dev not on the newly assigned NULL version of
dev.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>

--- orig/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c 2009-12-22 23:58:56.000000000 +0200
+++ devel/drivers/net/hamradio/bpqether.c 2009-12-25 19:49:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -282,11 +282,12 @@ static netdev_tx_t bpq_xmit(struct sk_bu

bpq = netdev_priv(dev);

- if ((dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev)) == NULL) {
+ if (!bpq->ethdev) {
dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
kfree_skb(skb);
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
+ dev = bpq_get_ether_dev(dev);

skb->protocol = ax25_type_trans(skb, dev);
skb_reset_network_header(skb);
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