From: Colin Ian King Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 11:45:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: only lock and unlock fws if fws is not null There is a null ptr check for fws to set bcmc_credit_check, however, there a lock and unlock on fws should only performed if fwts is also not null to also avoid a potential null pointer deference. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c @@ -1609,10 +1609,11 @@ static int brcmf_fws_notify_bcmc_credit_ { struct brcmf_fws_info *fws = ifp->drvr->fws; - brcmf_fws_lock(fws); - if (fws) + if (fws) { + brcmf_fws_lock(fws); fws->bcmc_credit_check = true; - brcmf_fws_unlock(fws); + brcmf_fws_unlock(fws); + } return 0; }