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Re: rsi: fix a dereference on adapter before it has been null checked

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Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> The assignment of dev is dereferencing adapter before adapter has
> been null checked, potentially leading to a null pointer dereference.
> Fix this by simply moving the assignment of dev to a later point
> after the sanity null check of adapter.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan CID#1398383 ("Dereference before null check")
> 
> Fixes: dad0d04fa7ba ("rsi: Add RS9113 wireless driver")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

6508497cbdc7 rsi: fix a dereference on adapter before it has been null checked

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9944509/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

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