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From:   Aymen Qader <qader.aymen@gmail.com>
Cc:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
        Aymen Qader <qader.aymen@gmail.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: Avoid null pointer arithmetic
Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:04:08 +0100
Message-Id: <20180927170408.4495-1-qader.aymen@gmail.com>
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Avoid null pointer arithmetic in rtw_mlme_ext.c by skipping other field
checks if the information element pointer is null.

Signed-off-by: Aymen Qader <qader.aymen@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
index 834053a0ae9d..8a3a71456cd0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
@@ -2971,8 +2971,10 @@ static unsigned int OnAssocReq(struct adapter *padapter,
 	/*  checking SSID */
 	p = rtw_get_ie(pframe + WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN + ie_offset, _SSID_IE_, &ie_len,
 		pkt_len - WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN - ie_offset);
-	if (!p)
+	if (!p) {
 		status = _STATS_FAILURE_;
+		goto OnAssocReqFail;
+	}
 
 	if (ie_len == 0) { /*  broadcast ssid, however it is not allowed in assocreq */
 		status = _STATS_FAILURE_;
-- 
2.17.1