The NULL check was done to late, and there it was a risk
of a possible null pointer dereference.
This was partially found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_update.h | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_update.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_update.h
index 84defce..00e1361 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_update.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_update.h
@@ -165,12 +165,14 @@ static inline int update_get_reply_buf(struct update_reply *reply, void **buf,
int result;
ptr = update_get_buf_internal(reply, index, &size);
+
+ LASSERT((ptr != NULL && size >= sizeof(int)));
+
result = *(int *)ptr;
if (result < 0)
return result;
- LASSERT((ptr != NULL && size >= sizeof(int)));
*buf = ptr + sizeof(int);
return size - sizeof(int);
}
--
1.7.10.4